I thought of a fun thread for everyone to participate in.
I was outside surveying the yard and thought..." Learn to eat dandilions and you'll never go hungry". I felt so clever. I'm not much of a thinker, more of a do-er so something like this is a big deal. LOL
Do you have a profound garden saying, either original or not, to share?
Sunny
Insiteful gardening quotes
Your garden - the less help you get, the more yours it is.
Great idea Sunny!
Here are a few of my favorites. :)
"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."
( -- May Sarton, American author)
"...O happy Garden! whose seclusion deep Hath been so friendly to industrious hours; And to soft slumbers, that did gently steep Our spirits, carrying with them dreams of flowers And wild notes warbled among leafy bowers... (from Farewell, 1802) "
( -- William Wordsworth, English poet)
"Daisies, ye flowers of lowly birth, embroiderers of the carpet earth
that gem the velvet sod. "
( -- St. Clare of Assisi )
"Sorrow and the scarlet leaf,
Sad thoughts and sunny weather;
Ah me! this glory and this grief
Agree not well together!"
(- Thomas W. Parsons)
Heres some on my favorites...roses...
"A rose is a rose is a rose." ~ Gertrude Stein
"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December." ~J. M. Barrie
"If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is."
~ J B Yeats 1871-1957
"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring."
~ William Carlos Williams
"Roses red and violets blue, and all the sweetest flowers that in the forrest grew." -~Edmund Spenser
"Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed." ~ William Shakespeare 1564-1616
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses" ~ Alphonse Kerr.
Such beautiful words!
How about "Weed it and Reap!"
LOL, I don't know who wrote it but they are very clever.
How about...
"If they're giving it away...it spreads!"
pj...ha ha ha ha
Hi, New to the site, Happy to be here!
My favorite quote is:
"Where flowers bloom...So does Hope."
Lady Bird Johnson
Happy Gardening Everyone. :)
I like the saying if it comes out easy it's an expensive plant and if it's hard to pull out it's a weed..!!