Jeffrey Donovan Quotes

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.

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

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

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

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

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.

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

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.

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.

The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower garden, the shrubs and the trees, the vegetable garden, all these things.

I'm a flower gardener.

I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

I'm a gardener, and I love to plant.

You don't need a great green thumb in order to make something look nice. A lot of times, it's just about cleaning up the weeds and trimming back the shrubs.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

I'm really into gardening.

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

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

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

A good garden may have some weeds.