Peter Marino Quotes

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

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

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

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

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

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

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.

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.

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.

A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.

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.

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

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.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

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

As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed.

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

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

I've just got a flat with a little balcony, so I did that fantastic thing of buying far too many plants and not really knowing what was going to stay alive and what wasn't.

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

A plant I have grown for years without really taking much notice of is epimedium. You know how it is: someone gives you a plant, you stick it in the ground and somehow it never presses the trigger. There is no intimacy.