John Evelyn Quotes

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.

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

I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden.

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

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

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

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

I'm really good at growing roses.

I'm a flower gardener.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.