The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. Thomas Jefferson
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. Edna St. Vincent Millay
For most of us who are intimidated by theories of garden design, the cottage garden provides immediate appeal, since it is a horticultural rather than an architectural solution to a limited area. Patricia Thorpe
Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth. Kahlil Gibran
Spade! ...Thou art a tool of honor in my hands; I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. William Wordsworth
The bee is little amongst things that fly, but her fruit is the chief of sweet things. author unknown
Gardeners have to be a combined chemist, botanist and meteorologist to carry all such information in one's head and be able to send it forth when visitors pose embarrassing questions. Dr E.J. Salisbury
So much is written of the gardener's role in the creation and enjoyment of flowering beauty and so little said of the relish of honest labor that gardening requires. author unknown
There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. Janet Kilburn Phillips
Flowers...have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its vigor. Henry Ward Beecher
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. Frank Lloyd Wright
