#gardening

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. ↗

— William Cowper

#garden #greenhouse #loves #too #who

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. ↗

— Gary Miller

#believe #farming #gardening #guest #guest worker program

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

— Carolyn Murphy

#anymore #gardening #hat #hiking #i

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

— Doug Larson

#every #except #grow #how #learning

All gardening is landscape painting. ↗

— William Kent

#landscape #painting

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

— Rudyard Kipling

#beautiful #gardens #how #made #oh

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#flowers #garden #gardening #mother #sacrifices

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ↗

— Les Brown

#ago #because #long #long time #planted

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#attention #children #had #jungle #living

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. ↗

— D. Elton Trueblood

#discovering #full #human #human life #knows