"To plant and maintain a flower border, with……" — Gertrude Jekyll
"To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed."
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Gertrude Jekyll
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15 Quotes by Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll has 15 quotes on this site.
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There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as…
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I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her…
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of…
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It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice…
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The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love,…
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It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging,…
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If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel…
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I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may…
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A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.
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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it…
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The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
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There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand…
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More Border Quotes
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that…
— William Bartram
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House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs,…
— John Boehner
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
— Tony Abbott
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Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people…
— Jan Brewer
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Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
— George W. Bush
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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
— Jeb Bush
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on…
— Herman Cain
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right…
— Herman Cain
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
— Pablo Casals
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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is…
— Paul Cellucci
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to…
— Eric Clapton
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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