26 Quotes by Janet Macunovich

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!

Wood’s not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread.

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can’t keep her eyes off the landscape.

We think we learn by growing a plant but we can’t know if it’s just surviving or truly living? We really don’t know anything about a plant until we kill it.

You don’t know the plant until you’ve killed it. Then you’ve learned something.

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod’s undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy’s pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.

The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven’t yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.

I don’t rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots.

Don’t design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.