Do not love these gardens if you despise the dirt.

The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them - who…

— Allen Lacy

“The sun does not rise when you need it most. You rise instead.”

— Melissa Jennings

“I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in.”

— Melissa Jennings

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

— Lillie Langtry

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon…

— Ted Danson

“It is the garden dseigner's job to hide the vulgar and the common as far as the eye can see and include only the…

— Andrew Crofts

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is…

— Elton John

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

— Saint Francis de Sales

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise…

— Costa Georgiadis

My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

— Estelle

In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to…

— Violet Fane

“IT HAD NEVER been such a beautiful May. Every day the sky shone a peerless blue, untouched by cloud. Already, the gardens were crammed…

— Rachel Joyce

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

— Alain Ducasse

From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“Gardens by their very nature are fragile beings that live in the two dimensions of time and care.”

— Joe Eck