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.

- Gertrude Jekyll

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

- Gertrude Jekyll

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

- Gertrude Jekyll

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

- Gertrude Jekyll

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

- Gertrude Jekyll

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…

- Gertrude Jekyll

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 …

- Gertrude Jekyll

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…

- Gertrude Jekyll

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…

- Gertrude Jekyll