Flower 1
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"You don't have to be a good gardener to love flowers;
You have to love flowers to be a good gardener." | 
Pink Rose
"A piece of ground not over large, with a garden; Near to the house a stream of constant water; And besides these, some little quantity of woodland".<... | 
Regal Lilies
Regal lilies make June and July their own by their fragrance; they remind me of Sunday school and stained glass windows, and of a clear old preacher w... |
Flower 2
"The most important thing I found I could possible plant in the garden was patience." | 
Flower 3
Sometime I am going to make signs that you can put up, so the fairies will know these places by their right names. | 
Flower 4
"I like the nice names of flowers our grandmothers used - pincushion flower or morning bride - much better than scabiosas. Horticulturists ought to be... |
Flower 5
"God Almightie first planted a Garden. And indeed, it is the Purest of Humane pleasure.  It is the Greatest Refreshment to the Spirits of Man."
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Flower 6
A garden cannot be bought at a store counter, or ordered from a catalogue, arrive delivered and packaged to be set up and ready for occupancy the next... | 
Flower 7
For when the traveler returns from the mountain slopes into the valley, he brings, not a handful of earth, unsayable to others, but instead some word... |
Flower 8
Gardens always attract visitors. Naturally, friends came often; then friends of friends; casual acquaintances, too; and sometimes mere strangers who w... | 
Flower 9
"I have never allowed anyone or anything to dishearten me" | 
Flower 10
"The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the whole world."
Charles Dudley Warner
My... |
Flower 11
"The best place to seek God . . . You can dig for Him there."
                                George Bernard Sh... | 
Flower 12
"It is not graceful, and it makes one hot; but it is a blessed sort of work, and if Eve had had a spade in Paradise and known what to do with it, we s... | 
Flower 13
Let us divide our labours, thou where choice
Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind
The Woodbine round this Arbour, or direct<... |
Flower 14
"It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening.
You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not ."
W.C. Sellar... | 
Flower 15
"Die when I may, I want it said by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."<... | 
Flower 16
He that is a garden's friend,
Groweth calm and wise,
And after death shall rise and tend
A plot in paradise.
      Â... |
Flower 17
In fine weather the old gentleman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out of the window at it, by t... | 
Flower 18
'I wouldn't want to make it look like a gardener's garden, all clipped an ' speck an' span, would you?' he said. 'It's nicer like this with things run... | 
Flower 19
She could grow them [flowers] anywhere, ... and they seemed to live longer for her.  She grew them with rough, almost slap-dash love, but her hands... |
Flower 20
"The garden is never dead; growth is always going on, and growth that can be seen, and seen with delight."
                  ... | 
Red Rose
The rose looks fair, but fairer we deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
                          ... | 
Flower 21
"Earth laughs in flowers."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hamatreya |
Flower 22
"Each spring ... a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of gr... | 
Flower 23
"Gardens ... Should be like lovely, well-shaped girls:Â Â all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, deductive surprises and then still more c... |
