Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. — John Updike Copy Share Image
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.” — Hanna Rion VerBeck Copy Share Image
Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness... a secret garden where Joy and miracles abound, and the garden is always open to everyone who makes the Loving choice… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I just come and talk to the plants, really--very important to talk to them, they respond I find. — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“plants that are growing well, then no special preparation is needed. For a newly planted area, first remove any sod. Next, till… — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
“Life is like a garden Friend ship is like a flower... That blooms and grows in beauty With the sunshine and shower.” — Poetryguru Copy Share Image
Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body. — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
“I have not told my garden yet, Lest that should conquer me; I have not quite the strength now To break it… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of… — Tim Gilmore This Kind of City Ghost stories and psychological landscapes Copy Share Image
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“Annamaria had preferred oil rather than electric lamps. She said that sunshine grows plants, the plants express essential oils, and years later… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
“On the wall above the chair, a picture, framed but with no glass: a print of flowers,” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“Half the interest of the garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have not the correct tools to work in your garden...just let it be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
A lot of men tend to mix a couple of fragrances and smell like a flower garden. Avoid! — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me. — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching. — Rumi Copy Share Image