It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.
