| A garden is never so good as it will be next year ...Thomas Cooper |
| A rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. |
| A thing of beauty is a joy forever. |
| A Weed is but an unloved Flower. |
| All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. |
| All things grow with love. |
| All gardening is landscape painting. ...Horace Walpole |
| Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the from of perspiration ...Lou Erickson |
| Gardeners live longer, awaiting another Spring. |
| Heaven is beneath our feet as well as over our heads ...Henry David Thoreau |
| He who plants a garden plants happiness. |
| He who plants a tree loves others besides himself. |
| How does my garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells.......... and fertilizer, you idiot. |
| More than anything, I must have flowers always, always ...Claude Monet |
| The seed is hope; the flower is joy. |
| There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be still to hear it. |
| Though an old man I am but a young gardener ...Thomas Jefferson |
| "Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God" ...Thomas Jefferson |
| "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in" ...Greek proverb |
| When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy There is always the garden ...M. Aumonier |
| "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies" ...Gertrude Jekyll |
| "In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends" ...Kozuko Okakura |
| "Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us" ...Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." ...William Shakespeare |
| "Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders" ...Henry David Thoreau |
| "As Rosemary is to the spirit, so Lavender is to the soul." |
| "Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow." |
| "We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden." |
| "A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul" ...Sadi |
| "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom" ...Marcel Proust |
| "The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession" ...Phyllis McGinley |
| "An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life." |
| The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses ...Hanna Rion |
| It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought ...James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane |
| God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done ...Author Unknown |
| Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed ...Lewis Gannit |
And finally, my personal favorite and my own signature
It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for; gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up. Thomas Jefferson said once, "Though an old man, I am but a young gardener" ...Allan Armitage |