Annuals Quote by Wendell Berry

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the…

— Katharine Whitehorn

“more sustainable solution was to concentrate on perennials, plants that would grow year after year without requiring new seeds.”

— William H. Weber

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right…

— Thomas Jefferson

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

— Henry Beard

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

— Rob Morrow

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities…

— Guru Nanak

“We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of…

— Carol Deppe

“In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, “climax” ecosystem, usually tall forest.”

— Charles C. Mann

Wild flowers grow where they will.

— Rachel Lambert Mellon

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people

— Ralph Siu