Plaques in my garden:
This is your last chance- bloom!
Gardeners know all the best dirt.
Gardeners tend to soil their plants
A plant ID tage:Plantum whydibuyum
My favorite: Gardeners get to stay in their beds all day.
What's Your Favorite Gardening Quote?
Quoting:
Gardeners get to stay in their beds all day
very cute!
Love fancyvan's & seedpicker_Tx's! Will print the seed's poem for DH & going to make some plaster cast stones w/fancyvan's quotes on them especially the last chance to bloom - going to have to make a few of those to put around my flowers & remind them what'll happen if they don't!
That poem seedpicker is adorable! Just what I needed after the week we've had!
LindaTX......Definately a good one also! I tried...but it died! Here awhile back I rescued several from Lowe's that had been discounted due to being "Distressed". For awhile I thought they looked like they were going to make it.....but then they up and died!......And that was before IKE even was a threat. If they were THAT distressed they sure wouldn't have made it thru the hurricane! Up until then I had pretty good luck with my rescue plants. Oh well....."I tried!"
Probably won't try again until Spring. Most of mine at the moment look a bit "distressed" themselves. Of course, I do too, at the moment come to think about it!
We are very blessed. We are all OK, our homes are OK, and the plants will recooperate.....I hope!
Jeanne
"I am a old man, but a young gardener" -Thomas Jefferson, our gardening president
If you have grass... you have room for more flowers.
This one is not gardening related but I did buy the plaque at a garden show - couldn't resist- and it will hang in the garden next year!
"Never miss a good chance to shut up!"
I love seedpicker's Gardener's Spouse poem! My family has my passion for gardening and horses to contend with, which leaves me little time or inclination to do much inside my house, but we manage!
A quote that I like, and which adorns a handcast rock in my garden is "An hour in the garden puts Life's problems in perspective."
I also often think of my dear departed Dad and how he would bring my mother a bouquet of flowers/weeds/grasses and always tell her, " 'Tis not but a humble wildflower, but I gives it with all me heart!" I assumed the quote is from some piece of literature, but my father would never say. Maybe he did make it up himself!?!
That is really a Good one, seedpicker
So many good ones. I saw one at Hobby Lobby once that said " I'm in the garden Don't bug me. It had a picture of a bug on it.
Just wait 'till next year! No, wait--that's the Cubs ;)! Sigh....
This one is so true regarding newly planted things. The first year they sleep, the second year they creep, the third year they leap.
Sounds like daylilies, haha!
My Mother always had the best "A green thumb is really just an aching back" she was an outstanding gardener for 70+ years ..Died of a stroke while picking pears from a ladder at 87
Sounds like Mother died doing what she loved. Hope we are all that active at that age.
"I am a very old man but a very young gardener" -Thomas Jefferson
For people who plant the wrong plant in the wrong place, my grandfather used to say: When you plant rhubarb, don't complain when rhubarb grows.
Sylvain.
Another way of saying "You reap what you sow".
Yeah, Princess K... the man always had something nasty say in an oblique way.
He lived with us and held on to live to a ripe old age because neither Heaven or He** wanted to take him in and the Grim Reaper was afraid of him. Quite the tool, he was.
Take care.
Sylvain.
sounds like my mil. almost 93 now.
"God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done." Is that what I'm supposed to do on rainy days???? Huh!
Plants will not grow if you thank the giver. -- Grandmaw
I have the quote the earth laughs in flowers painted on one side of the sofet of my front porch along with the quote by chief Seattle .. the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.. on the other..
Want to share this gardeners prayer,
Dear God of all things
Please look down upon our labors
And make out little garden
Much better than our neighbors
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