Clyde Edgerton 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.

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

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.

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.

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

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.

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

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

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.

I have trouble keeping plants alive. Even plastic ones.

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.

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.

Turns out tomato feed is the gift that keeps on giving. It's good for any plant.

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

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

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

Eggplants are finicky, complicated, and often misunderstood. If you know how to treat one well, then it shows that you have know-how and dedication.

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

This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.

i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.