Mary Berry Quotes

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

I'm really good at growing roses.

I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

I love - oh God, I shouldn't say this - I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead.

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.

I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden.

When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.

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.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

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

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.

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

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

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

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

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.