The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The sooner the gardener loses certain kinds of innocence the better, and there is no better place to begin than with the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
“The sooner the gardener loses certain kinds of innocence the better, and there is no better place to begin than with the weather.” — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share
