A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of ….

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn..

In a well-made garden every day is new..

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention..

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us..

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets..

An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, ….

The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them - who planned and planted and rep….

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That pl….

Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prej….

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting..

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants..

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do s….

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden..

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly..

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation..

Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But ….

Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes..

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a l….

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be..

Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is….