We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one..

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's..

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind..

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..

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….

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

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..

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….

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..

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

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

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 ….

Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us..

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

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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 ….