Emma Tennant Quotes

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.

I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.

I am a gardener, I have a big green thumb, and I can take care of these plants really easily because they are all fake.

I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it, I've done it all my life but at heart, I'm just a passionate amateur gardener.

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.