Floral Cultivation Quotes

I'm clueless when it comes to flowers.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

Let us cultivate our garden.

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

If there is no gardener there is no garden.

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

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.