The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to heat our passive solar home that they figured out how to design and build together. I was the kid with green peppers in my lunch, and I liked them!
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
Flowers are happy things.
Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.