“I ordered a modern purple martin house myself and proceeded to construct a dreadful object: unpainted, it looked like a cheap motel; painted blue and white, it looked like a cheap Greek motel and had to be thrown out.” — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
“I ordered a modern purple martin house myself and proceeded to construct a dreadful object: unpainted, it looked like a cheap motel; painted blue… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
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