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 question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at… — 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 Image
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. — 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 weather.” — 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 get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a 'natural way'. You… — 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 Image
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 Image
