Gardening Quotes

I realise the second picture has nothing to do with gardening, but it does help a bit when times are tough and I thought it might be nice to share.

A friend bought me that well-known wall plaque ~

Gardening forever ~
Housework whenever. :o)

This is a similar one to yours TT - God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.

Hi Gillian, how about .... A weed is just a plant growing in the wrong place ...

I like "With ferns like these, who needs anemones?" I use it a bit too often.... :-)

Unrelated to gardening, but I like this one: "Shoot for the Moon - even if you miss, you'll be among the stars" :-)

A plant is just a weed growing in the wrong place ?

I was restoring a somewhat neglected garden which probably explains the sign I came across

Husband for sale - TV remote included.

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries..." ~ Joseph Addison

How about "The earth laughs in flowers" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"What grows in the garden, so lovely and rare?
Roses and Dahlias and people grow there." ~ From 'A Gardener's Diary'

Thanks all for your input! I'll be adding to my book.
When I get time I'll add a few more I have.

Gillian ~
This is a good blog.
I'm enjoying it.
Thank you. :o)

I found this in an old book and as Christmas day is on a Thursday this year I thought it would be interesting to see if next years prediction is true ..........

If Christmas day on Thursday be,
A windy winter you shall see :
Windy days in every week ,
Winter weather strong and thick ;
Summer shall be good and dry ,
Corn and wheat shall multiply.

We shall see !

Also :

A green Christmas means a fat churchyard .........

Where there is one Englishman there is a garden. Where there are two Englishmen there will be a club. But this does not mean a falling off in the number of gardens. There will be three. The club will have one too.
~ A.W.Smith

"A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot"...not sure where that one originates.

There's also Rudyard Kipling's poem: 'The Glory of the Garden'. Lots of quotes in there - too many to quote here - look it up, Gillian, you'll probably want the whole poem in your book. I've got it framed hanging on my wall.

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
~Dorothy Frances Gurney, "Garden Thoughts"

"So many seeds -- so little time."

A child burying her pet in the garden offered a prayer - "In the name of the Father, the Son and into the hole he goes"

A man should never plant a garden
larger than his wife can take care of

T.H.Everett

A garden is never as good as it will be next year.
~Thomas Cooper

Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns have roses.

A fairy seed I planted, so dry and white and old, there sprang a vine
enchanted, with magic flowers of gold.
- Marjorie Barrows

What kind of flowers do you give to King Tut?
Chrysanthemummies.

When you smell flowers you get a scents: when you smell perfumes you get odours.

Danny Shamtally