279 Quotes About Gardening

The Good Gardener planted each of us here for a reason.

Gardening is a whole different ball game to farming, it’s part of the solution to which farming is part of the problem.

Gardening is like landscape painting to me. The garden is the canvas. Plants, containers and other garden features are the colors. I paint on the garden of canvas hoping to create a master piece with my colors.

What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.

She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired.

Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.

A visitor to a garden sees the successes, usually. The gardener remembers mistakes and losses, some for a long time, and imagines the garden in a year, and in an unimaginable future.

Most folks probably think that gardens only get tended when they're blooming. But most folks would be wrong.

Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.