Gardening Quotes by Henry Mitchell

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

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

— Henry Mitchell

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

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

— Henry Mitchell

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

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

— Henry Mitchell

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

— Henry Mitchell

“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

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

Your garden will reveal yourself.

— Henry Mitchell

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

— Henry Mitchell

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