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“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.”– Thomas Cooper Another quote with dual meanings. We learn each year in the garden therefore the next one shows that improvement. We also look forward to the next year’s garden even before we’ve left this years! By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. ~Henry Mitchell, The Essential . . . → Read More: Quote of the Week #8 Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 I like this quote because of the hidden meaning. Ostensibly the author is talking about weeds and insects and things you can actually lay hand on. He doesn’t seem to have ill will toward them. Its just a statement that . . . → Read More: Quote of the Week #7 If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need. ~ Cicero I laughed at this quote’s honesty. My wife commented when I packed to begin moving ahead of her and my son that I packed and loaded boxes of seeds and books before I even packed clothing. You need a little . . . → Read More: Quote of the Week #6 When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown I love this quote only because it is so true! How many times in the garden have . . . → Read More: Quote of the Week #4 On every stem, on every leaf,… and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Though I do not agree with some of his politics, Holmes has a point here. . . . → Read More: Quote of the Week #3 Take thy spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours. ~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782 Its hard sometimes to not feel like an artist when gardening even when the art looks like a three year old drew it. Akin to music which uses very few notes (and variations) or . . . → Read More: Quote of the Week #2 |
 
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