Colour Quote by Piet Oudolf

Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the…

— Jens Jensen

“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they…

— Jay Kappraff

First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need . First the nucleus — then…

— Robert Collier

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

— Gertrude Jekyll

A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself became of secondary and almost minimal interest.

— Bill Munson

For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of…

— Gertrude Jekyll

“First, by what means it is that a Plant, or any Part of it, comes to Grow, a Seed to put forth a Root…

— Nehemiah Grew

A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil,…

— Vita Sackville-West

Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.

— Janet Macunovich

Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the…

— Antoine Lavoisier

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant…

— Hope Jahren

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

— Frank Lloyd Wright