Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden. — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released. — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
“I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find,… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
