Climate Quote by Charles Dowding

“Gardening is easier than it is often made out to be.”

— Charles Dowding

“Let crops overlap and you gain time, not just space.”

— Charles Dowding

“For a plant to grow anywhere, it reveals that a human being needs just a space, and not anywhere special to flourish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully…

— Elisabeth Murdoch

“The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.”

— Sir Ken Robinson

I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent…

— Susan Orlean

“inches between each plant and 18 inches between each row. Prune heavily after planting to encourage”

— Maggie Oster

“Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be…

— David Wheeler

“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.”

— Asa Gray

Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.

— Henry Mitchell

“Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.”

— Charles Dowding