A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire..

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, ….

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked ….

Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, b….

Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a gard….

Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out….

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose..

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would v….

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals..

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person..

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?.

The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to t….

A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soo….

I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's l….

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat..

Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unna….

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?.

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance..

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace..

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all..