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Some garden quotes I Like. Please add yours!


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

But each spring ... a gardening instinct
Sure as the sap rising in the trees,
stirs within us. We look about
And decide to tame another little bit of ground.
Lewis Gantt

A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
Thomas Cooper

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden,
and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
Robert Brault

If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine,
plant a garden.
Robert Brault

Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.
Author Unknown

Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience.

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
Elizabeth Murray

Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.
Author unknown

A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.
Sadi

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
~Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden"

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. Author Unknown

Goodness Ann you must be psychic! I was lying in bed last night and reading a book about a garden, and thought of posting a thread like this :-D ( no I know I'm not supposed to be posting or reading but I have to do something! lol)

" a garden is the only mistress who never fails, who never fades" Beverley Nichols :-)

Thank you both.

Rose, how are your eyes?

"a garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire"

"If all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace."

both Beverley Nichols
:-)

One is ok Ann lol, the other is ...not lol. Will be phoning optician first thing in the morning :-(

A weed is merely a plant but in the wrong place.
Alan Ttchmarsh... I think.

'Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!'

Thomas F. Healey

'Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are'.
Alfred Austin

BC my mum always said "don't wait till I'm dead., I'd rather have my flowers now " :-D

A good garden may have some weeds.

I can't remember who said this.

That's what I say, too, Rose :-) <3

What I always say too Rose, re not giving me flowers when I am dead, I always say flowers are for the living. <3

"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself." - May Sarton, novelist and poet, 1912-1995.

Two quotes, one of which I have posted before.

Never look down on a buttercup(or daisy) for one day it will look down on you.

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

Happy days

the answer lies in the soil !! :-D

One for you Ann, and all gardeners in the writers group lol

"Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness."

Christopher Lloyd

"If you have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden." .........I like that :-D....

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back with a hinge on it.
Charles Dudley Warner.


Tec.

Yes Lorraine and now you have got me pondering. Who used to say that, in a gardening programme on the radio, maybe a quiz he would always say. "I think the answer lies in the soil", blowed if I can remember his name.

Rose, Yes, good one. :-D

Ann - The name Freddie Grisewood comes to mind, but I may have that wrong?

Tec.