Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find, succumbing to an intangible beatitude that takes them for a brief escape into another dimension. Both sorts of gardener are besotted; both get their hands dirty; think and talk gardening; but on the threshold of another's garden, each use a different set of whiskers.
At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous. - Mirabel Osler
At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.
- Mirabel Osler
There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his pictur… - Mirabel Osler
There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his pictur…
Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their es… - Mirabel Osler
Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their es…
Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released. - Mirabel Osler
Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.
To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: … - Mirabel Osler
To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: …
Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they … - Mirabel Osler
Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they …
Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the g… - Mirabel Osler
Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the g…
When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernat… - Mirabel Osler
When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernat…
As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discrim… - Mirabel Osler
As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discrim…
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