Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

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• There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of…
• I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes…
• To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.
• In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also…
• It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to…
• The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his…
• It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade…
• If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find…
• I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through…
• A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.
• A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
• The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
• There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover,…
• The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden…
• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as…

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