Favorite Quotations
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Garden & Gardening, 3
New Illustrated Guide to Gardening
I love being asked to identify plants, and I don't know which gives me more pleasure: to know what they are or not to know what they are. ~ Elizabeth Lawrence The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing better than they have ever done before. ~ Vita Sackville West There are two essential characteristics that a gardener with perennials must possess: patience and pride. Patience that the plant will eventually grow and mature, and pride in the progress of each individual one. ~ Patricia A. Taylor, Easy Care Perennials Never apologize for your garden…Whatever your garden is, it is beautiful. ~ Christine Allison, 365 Days of Gardening All gardens are a form of autobiography. ~ Robert Dash A garden is a lovesome thing. ~ Thomas Edward Brown
"All gardening is landscape painting." ~ Alexander Pope