General Chat

If you would be happy for a week, take a wife.
If you would be happy for a month, kill a pig.
If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

Chinese proverb.

Tec.

Hazel Lol!

Rose, how right she is they usually do. Immortilised on GR.

When looking at a 'dead' plant:

"It will come up from the bottom" ( and it always did :-D)

my mum :-)

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

Right, I was thinking it was actually Ralph Wightman but had forgotten that it was spoofed on beyond our Ken. Thanks Mau.

Freddy Grisewood, now there's a name from the radio past.

Yes like that quote Tec. :-D

The story of mankind started in a garden, and ended in revelations.
Oscar Wilde.

Tec.

Hi Ann

"Beyond our Ken"

Kenneth Williams' country character, Arthur Fallowfield, who was based on Dorset farmer Ralph Wightman, a regular contributor to the BBC radio programme "Any Questions?" Fallowfield's lines were full of innuendo and double entendre – on one occasion Kenneth Horne introduced him as the man who put the sex in Sussex. Fallowfield's reply to any question began: "Well, I think the answer lies in the soil!"

Maux :-D

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

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

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


Tec.

"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....

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

the answer lies in the soil !! :-D

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

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

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

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

A good garden may have some weeds.

I can't remember who said this.

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

'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