~ “The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.”  ~ Gertrude Jekyll

“Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.”  ~ Lou Erickson

“In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.”  ~ Abram L. Urban

“God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.”  ~ Author Unknown

“Gardens are a form of autobiography.”  ~ Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, 1993

“An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life.” ~ Author Unknown

"We've all had our humbling gardening experiences and will continue to have more, which is the best parts of the pursuit - there is always a plant about which to learn, a part of the garden to renew, or a technique to master."  ~ Sara Begg, Executive Editor, Horticulture Magazine

“No two gardens are the same.  No two days are the same in one garden.”  ~ Hugh Johnson

“One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.”  ~ W.E. Johns, The Passing Show

“I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.”  ~ John Erskine

“It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening.  You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.”  ~ W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, Garden Rubbish, 1936

“When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.  If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.”  ~ Author Unknown

"Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden. Creating any garden - big or small - is, in the end, all about joy."  ~ Julie Moir Messervy "A Little Bit of Eden" The Boston Globe Magazine

“I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border.  I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.”  ~ Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988

“Gardening is a kind of disease.  It infects you. You cannot escape it.  When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.”  ~ Lewis Gannit

“Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.”  ~ Julie Moir Messrvy

“The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.”   ~ Vita Sackville-West

“What will I do when I can no longer dig?” ~ Knute Hamson, Growth of the Soil

“My garden is an honest place. Every tree and every vine are incapable of concealment, and tell after two or three months exactly what sort of treatment they have had.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He that plants trees loves others beside himself.” ~ Thomas Fuller (1732)  

“You reap what you sow. But there will be surprizes.” ~ Emilie Barnes
 

“It would be unreasonable to demand that anything as lovely as an herbaceous border in full bloom be achieved without a little suffering.” ~ Eleanor Perenyi

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.” ~ Henry Beecher (1858)

“A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.” ~ Sara Stein

"Life is made of choices: clean the house, or plant flowers. See ya in the garden!"  ~ Author Unknown

“Most people don't see the sun, soil, bugs, seeds, plants, moon, water, clouds, and wind the way gardeners do.”  ~ Jamie Jobb

One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.”  ~ Elsa Bakalar

“The more one gardens, the more one learns; and the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. I suppose the whole of life is like that.”   ~ V. Sackville-West

“In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.” ~ Louise Beebe Wilder

“Who has learned to garden who did not at the same time learn to be patient?”  ~ H. L. V. Fletcher 

“I love being asked to identify plants, and I don't know which gives me more pleasure: to know what they are or not to know what they are.” ~ Elizabeth Lawrence, Through the Garden Gates, 1990

“If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity.”  ~ Robert Fulgham

“The butterfly is a flying flower,
the flower a tethered butterfly.”  ~ Ecouchard Le Brun

“In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earth and letting it take care of you.” ~ Charles Scott