"Last summer I was staying at a house……" — Beverley Nichols
"Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight."
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To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
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It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.
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Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or…
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We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
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A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
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A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city…
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The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a…
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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
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