Thalassa Cruso

Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

— Thalassa Cruso

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

— Thalassa Cruso

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious…

— Thalassa Cruso

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of…

— Thalassa Cruso

Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there…

— Thalassa Cruso

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it.…

— Thalassa Cruso

I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you…

— Thalassa Cruso

Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards.

— Thalassa Cruso

March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country…

— Thalassa Cruso

Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically…

— Thalassa Cruso

Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay…

— Thalassa Cruso