Natural Landscaping Quotes

Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.

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

I love nature like nothing else. Before I moved to Switzerland, my home was a flat in London with a garden. In those snatched moments away from dance, I did typical weekend things like pruning, planting, and weeding. I planted fruit trees and even had a vegetable garden, but I wasn't around enough, so it was a disaster.

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.

I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.

My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.