Roy Blount Jr. Quotes

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

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

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

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

I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

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.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

I walk out to my backyard garden at certain times of the year, and I can't get 30 feet without stopping for 20 minutes because the goumis need trimming.

I'm good with furniture, very bad with plants.

I spend a ridiculous amount on pots, lilacs, and alliums.

I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.

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.

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.

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

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

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 like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

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'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.

I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.