Best friends Quote by Melanie Dale

“Business was doing well, because all the locals knew that dishes made from the flowers that grew around the apple tree in the Waverley…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“The undulating terrain was cloaked in lush abundance, the vineyards like garlands of deep green and yellow, orchards and farms sprouting here and there,…

— Susan Wiggs

“And yeah, put out as I can be with Mama 'bout a lotta things, I gotta admit she gets all the credit for getting…

— James Villas

“Meg thought of the potted marijuana plants and the drying racks her parents used even before it was legal. “She dried her own herbs.”…

— Catherine Bybee

“IT HAD NEVER been such a beautiful May. Every day the sky shone a peerless blue, untouched by cloud. Already, the gardens were crammed…

— Rachel Joyce

“John scrambled up and down the terraces and banks, hunting out the secret breaks in the thickets or crawling through hollows woven from sharp-spined…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“A few minutes later Agnes had reached the market and was battling through the throng. She stepped over rotting offal and cabbage leaves to…

— Janet Gleeson

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“On a cold bubbling spring, covered dishes and crocks and pitchers of milk and butter and so on flouated in a circle in the…

— Eudora Welty

“The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers’ own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, asking for a second and a third.…

— Alice Hoffman

“Perched up on salvaged bricks, the half-pipes made perfect planters with an industrial edge that oddly complemented Sugar's pretty favorites: pansies, lantana, verbena and…

— Sarah-Kate Lynch