botanical care Quotes

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

I'm really good at growing roses.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

Let us cultivate our garden.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.