Antoni Porowski Quotes

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

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

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

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

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

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

I'm really good at growing roses.

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.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I spend a ridiculous amount on pots, lilacs, and alliums.

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

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 have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

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

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

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

I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

I used to laugh at my friends who garden, but I now garden. You don't even feel like you're exercising. You're having fun, and you're being healthy at the same time.

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I've always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

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