Dominic Holland Quotes

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

I'm really into gardening.

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.

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.

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

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

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

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

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

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

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.

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

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Gardening is not a rational act.

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.

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