Quotes about Gardening

“You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for gardening, cooking time, book reading time.”

“I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.”

“I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.”

“I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.”

“Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”

“I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.”

“I don't think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family and my home, and to them I'm not the Colin Firth of anything.”

“Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.”

“A weed is but an unloved flower.”

“My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.”

“My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.”

“You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.”

“Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.”

“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.”

“To dwell is to garden.”

“One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.”

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”

“Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.”