Emma Healey Quotes

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

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.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

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

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.

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.

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

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

One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.

It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how we garden and hardly at all on why we garden.

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

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.

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

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've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all kinds of flowers and plants. I've never had enough money to buy a big enough garden space.

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

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

My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.

I'm really good at growing roses.

I'm a flower gardener.

I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It's like if you're a painter, you can forget everything else while you're doing it.

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

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.