Plant Nurturing Quotes

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

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

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 have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

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

The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

All the plants in my house are dead - I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes.

Every night, my girlfriend comes home from work, and she brings with her a houseplant. She's like, 'Anthony, I had to pick this up. We need a houseplant in our apartment.' And every night, I make her return it. I say, 'No way, baby. You can't take care of a houseplant. You couldn't even keep your baby alive.'

'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety.

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

A plant I have grown for years without really taking much notice of is epimedium. You know how it is: someone gives you a plant, you stick it in the ground and somehow it never presses the trigger. There is no intimacy.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun.

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

I have a plant called Roger Franklin and he is really special. I'm not trying to sound weird, but he has a lot of personality and I talk to him every day. It's the first plant I've kept alive for longer than a week and I'm very proud of that. I try every day to make sure that he's happy.

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.