279 Quotes About Gardening

Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well.

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

Half the interest of the garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Bisogna capire la cosa che si vuol far crescere, capirla nel vero senso della parola. “Avere il pollice verde” non è un semplice modo di dire, è un fatto che rimane incomprensibile solo a chi è inesperto. Per “avere un pollice verde”, tuttavia, è necessario avere anche “un cuore verde”.

Un giardino ben fatto non è certo il prodotto di qualcuno che non abbia sviluppato la capacità di conoscere e amare gli esseri viventi.

I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

The market is the best garden.

Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying.