Stella McCartney Quotes

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

I'm really into gardening.

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.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

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.

Visiting gardens is bad for you. Not only does it encourage too much eating of cake but sets up all kinds of false notions that are ruinous to your garden back home.

I'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

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.

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

At places like Chelsea, often the garden displays are so big and grand that you'd never be able to have them at home.

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

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

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.

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.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

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.