The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot..

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen ….

We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we k….

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!.

If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden..

Low care is what we do while on our knees. Smart care is what makes the growing easier..

If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!.

Watch out for trees and traffic. The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other..

There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place..

History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!….

Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and t….

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out..

Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives..

Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions..

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape..

A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall..

Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you gro….

When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's also much easier to do that before ….

If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules..

You don't know the plant until you've killed it. Then you've learned something..

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap..