279 Quotes About Gardening

A garden always has a point.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible.

My first vegetable garden was in a hard-packed dirt driveway in Boulder, Colorado. I was living in a basement apartment there, having jumped at the chance to come out West with a friend in his Volkswagen Bug, fleeing college and inner-city Philadelphia. I was twenty, hungry for experience, and fully intending to be a ski bum in my new life. But it didn’t turn out that way.

For me, nearly all of our problems are solved with a recipe composed mostly of homesteading and permaculture.

It made her laugh - weeding with her fingernails - and the real weight of the earth comforted her.... She knew this garden would do it’s best for her. It didn’t matter how she knew.