Occupation: Oceanographer Birth: September 16, 1830 Death: December 1, 1902
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the hig….
There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it….
Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it..
Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise..
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one..
Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die in the cold season. Let….
A garden is not a picture, but a language..
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence..
All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybo….
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive..
Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October, I acc….
Your garden will reveal yourself..
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly know….
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the ….
Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferi….
Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks..
The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them..