The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arra…

- Penelope Hobhouse

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

- Penelope Hobhouse

The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, …

- Penelope Hobhouse

The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrat…

- Penelope Hobhouse

Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an …

- Penelope Hobhouse

A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of …

- Penelope Hobhouse

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.

- Penelope Hobhouse