Not a garden sign, but funny.
It's hanging in my kitchen.
Nancy
Share Your Garden Poetry
Good one, Nancy!
lol Nancy I love that last one!
I like dispatchr1's --- in fact I intend the plagiarize it without attribution!
I have a plate my Gramma (who raised me) gave me on the occasion of my umpteenth and final divorce. Has gilded scrolling around the edges, looks very Elizabethan, until you read the script: "This is MY house and I'll do as I d@amned please!"
Here's a link to a thread that I was part of (similar to this )... http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/732179/
Karin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Trying to do this link again ... topic is called "What is your favorite garden quote and or sign?" Carolina Gardening, June 11, 2007
Why won't this work anyway???
Karin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/732179/
Joannab...I love the one "my house is a mess...." I NEED to find that one!!
The link is working ... Thanks for sharing that thread! I'm going back to read them now!
dispatcher - I loved that one in Post #5458711 - cuz that's just how I feel today! How could I have felt so zesty yesterday when attacking the weed trees (giant Tree Spinach/Lamb's Quarters/Pigweed) and feel so worn out and tired today? LOL!
I like that one on the other thread that says"It looked prettier in the catalog" I NEED that one.
I love this thread. The only ones I have, I have found over the last 16 years.
"If no answer, come to the garden" on hanging tile (front door, found in VT.)
In the garden (a fake flat rock) "Old Gardener's never die. They Just Spade Away" (I know, corny, but I love it every time I uncover it, from Cape Cod.)
On driftwood made by a neighbor "Believe" and "Be Still" (from Oswego New York.)
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Naturelover1950 just posted this over in a BeginnerLandscaping thread... I just had to copy it over here! Not sure if it's a repeat for this thread...
" have you heard the old saying, 'I talk to my garden but the weeds always listen in'? "
Here's my garden sign.
I always loved that one in the collections book
My brother has that one too....he collects frogs.
Thanks WillieB for the invitation over on the ORVG.
No Poems in our garden shots but here's one that says it all.....
Ric
Someone up top was thinking about selling Garden Signs....
Here's a Follow up on Dispatcher's Cincinnati Floral Show shot
This place was AWESOME
Ric
I like this one......
"I tried, but it DIED!"
Here are a few i've come across since this thread was started:
"Oh, I live in a house at the top of a hill,
Where the clouds go drifting by.
And each lovely flower in the garden there,
Lifts it's smiling face to the sky."
EXPERIMENTAL
DANDELION FARM
DO NOT DISTURB WEEDS
'To plant a garden
is to believe
in tomorrow"
One of my favorites:
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
shall never sit in.
-Greek proverb
As you can tell, I collect quotes. Here are some that are, in some way or other, suitable for outdoors.
"My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus: I can't tell a string bean from a soy bean, or even a girl bean from a boy bean."
-- Ogden Nash, American poet
"No heart can think, no tongue can tell The virtues of the pimpernel"
-- Old Folk Rhyme
"I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn."
-- C.E. Cowman
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"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
-- Bill Waterston, creator of "Calvin and Hobbs"
"When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. "
-- Chinese Proverb
"Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves."
-- English Proverb
These are all so great!!!!!!! This is one I found: "It's been so dry, the trees are whistling for the dogs!"
Our favorite yard sign painter did this one!
It's one of four different ones we have.
Currently hanging over the entrance to our Sideyard Garden.
Oh and BTW it was painted by someone here on this Thread.....
Ric
I need that sign here, Morrigan.
That is Beautiful! Is it painted on slate, cement ... or wood? I Love it!
I so admire folks with talent!
Very nice!
It's on Recycled Roofing Slate....
I'll get shots of our other ones.
Ric
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yes -- the trees around here are whistling.
there is one that goes something like this
We are born of this earth and when we die we return to this earth
but in between we garden.
Oh I like that one! How true!!
I want to paint this one in some form or fashion:
"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." ~Mirabel Osler
Here's a couple more: Twigga Mortis; Weedis Victorious; Costa Fortunii; and finally, Peakus Lastweekus. These are plant labels.
Cute!
lol! love those plant labels... need em for my garden! tee hee!
This was a quote on the 1st page of the book I'm currently reading.
"But he that dares not grasp the thorn, should never crave the rose" Anne Bronte
and I saw this for sale on a garden plaque "tickle the earth with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest"
Going to resurrect this thread to include indoor signs since that's where we'll all be spending most of our time now.
My favorite.
Thanks, Jen--
BOY! It sure needed resurrecting! Been a long time.....
Maybe we could segue into Holiday related Poetry? The kind you would put on plaques for the Holiday decorations....
Gita
You're welcome.
Sounds good to me.