Quotes about gardening

It was a fun thread years ago so I thought I'd revive it.

For our birthday gal, Polly:
The more I hear of Horticulture, the more I like plain gardening. Julian R. Meade

For Zuzu: A rose by any other name, would still attract aphids!

This one makes me think of JasperDale and his sense of humor:
Your money or your lupines. Monty Python

For Venu/Louise (regarding our mouse messages):
A mouse a miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

ge1836/Jo Ann:
Great God of little things
Look down upon my labors
And make my little garden
A little better than my neighbors!

For Vossner:
I'M GARDENING: DO IT YOURSELF.


Love this sign:

Please do not step on the flowers.
It makes them flat and hard to see.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman

I have these in my garden blog, all serious ones though, I like the funny ones you quoted.

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 :-)

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
~Dorothy Frances Gurney, "Garden Thoughts"

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion

I really like the Osler quote.

""We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.""
— Abraham Lincoln

Excellent. 99.9% of life is attitude.

"Thorns on a cactus are God's way of telling us not to touch them"---friend of mine in Arizona to his son.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last. Robert Michael Pyle

Minnie Aumonier wrote "When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden."



Edited to add; as I was checking the exact phrasing on the above quote I came across this site:
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/like/when_the_world_wearies_and_society_ceases_to/346547/


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Thanks, ardesia. Stay warm in South Carolina and think of our high of 28 degrees today!

Brrrr, that does sound cold but your garden, even in the winter, is so pretty. Those evergreens are majestic. We had trees like that in our garden when I was growing up on LI. Much as I love my moss draped Live Oaks, I do miss those evergreens. We have plenty of cedars but they just do not have the same impact.

Thanks. They are pretty in all seasons.

Good sign for those celebrating Super Bowl victories tonight:

Are you implying that football fans are illiterate?

Never! I do wonder how many people would see the misspelling on the way home from the parties tonight.

I must be under developed.
I cant think of any garden quotes except "Roses are Red,violets are blue" The head cold is interfering w/ memory.

Sorry to hear you're still not feeling great, Jo Ann.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

I do remember the moment I watched this Japanese iris unfurling:

What a great sight.

Yes, it was. I was fortunate to be out with the camera as I saw it happening.

My memory is going South fast, but I use Google for every thing! ^_^

This may not be directly a gardening quote but I think it can apply for some compulsively obsessive plant collectors:You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" -Steven Wright, comedian.

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Space is the final frontier but not outer space for gardeners. To fit in what we love and be able to give it the space needed for best bloom sometimes other plants have to find new homes. That's a very difficult aspect with gardening.

"I can se the enemy and its me"

I really shouldn't post before my coffee has kicked in! That should have been "You CAN"T have everything" I changed it.

Beautiful edges on your clematis, Sue.

I did have my coffee early so I guessed at what you meant. :-)

"Jonathan," I said over our coffee, "have you noticed the weather today?"

"Um-m- pleasant day," he murmured abstractedly from behind his newspaper.

Pleasant! Have you felt the sunshine? Have you smelled the spring mud? I want to roll in it!"



"The Jonathan Papers"
--Elizabeth Woodville

See, now, coffee still not completely working, should have added that the clematis was taken at a nursery Zuzu and I went to last year, Sonoma Hort. No tag on it so I don't know the name but they were huge blooms.
I just have a hard time submitting a post without an image ^_^

Gotta find the name for these, took it in San Francisco on Sat. when we went with DD, SIL and grand kids to the newly remodeled Steinhart Aquarium. I of course kept my eyes out for all the plant material walking back to the car.

That's beautiful. It's even more beautiful to us, here in the northeast, who are expecting more of the white stuff tonight. By now snow is a dirty four letter word.

Patti has snow drops on Nantucket.
Reminded me I planted some, have to wait for 14 inches to melt.Cardinals are calling toooooowitt toooooowitt tooooowitt. Mateing calls sound so good.

Their winter color is so spectacular and twice as wonderful with snow in the background.

I agree.
When I heard the bird this AM Irealized how much I miss the summer birds.

Very little snow here now but it could all change tonight and probably will.

I was out working in the garden yesterday and had a hummer chew me out, I was too close to his lavender!

yer killin me

Probably shouldn't mention my loaded orange tree...naw, I won't.

For Pirl


"Try as we may, there will be failures. Moving a plant to another part of the garden sometimes makes all the difference, but enough is enough: getting a garden together requires a measure of ruthlessness." --Pamela J. Harper,

Or what Ms Harper opens many of her talks with, a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt. ""Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

I don't mind failures but hate failing three times with the same plant so then I just give up on it and admire it when I see it growing for someone else.

The seond quote is great.

I love so many things Eleanor Roosevelt did and said, although I come from a long line of Roosevelt haters. My grandmother always gave us every Roosevelt dime she acquired. She didn't want his image anywhere near her.

Thats going pretty far for eliminating FDR from ones sight.

What was your grandmother's problem with Mrs. Roosevelt?