Top 230 Gardening Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

Besides gardening, I love to sketch and to sing.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

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

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

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 find I am growing fonder of gardening, listening to music and reading.

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.

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.

There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

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.

Garden as though you will live forever.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

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

Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

I'd love to take up organic vegetable gardening, do anything that involves learning.

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

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

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

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.

All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there - cooking, gardening etc. After all, the place has to be run.

My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to heat our passive solar home that they figured out how to design and build together. I was the kid with green peppers in my lunch, and I liked them!

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

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

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.