Garden Quotes

my trimmed hydrangea bush that i received as a house
warming present a couple of years back. 
they are one of my favorites!

In looking for garden quotes for my earlier post, I came across some good ones that didn’t make “the cut” but are still worthy to share.

A good garden may have some weeds.  – Thomas Fuller  

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.  – Doug Larson

All gardening is landscape painting.  – William Kent

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings – then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.  – George Cadbury

 

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.  – Francis Bacon

He plants trees to benefit another generation.  – Caecilius Statius

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.  –  May Sarton

 

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.  – Martha Smith

 

I had a little friend come visit my heather plant.

(I messed around with these two pictures in a Microsoft program on my notebook – and it’s obvious, I know… I need practice.  Unless otherwise noted, my pictures are always untouched.)