The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies..

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom ….

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust..

There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer..

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight..

The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only mak….

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust..

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a go….

I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and ha….

If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flow….

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither….

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it..

More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest….

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to rem….

The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his c….

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….

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it..

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

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives..

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives..