#gardening

Ol' man Simon, planted a diamond. Grew hisself a garden the likes of none. Sprouts all growin' comin' up glowin' Fruit of jewels all shinin' in the sun. Colors of the rainbow. See the sun and the rain grow sapphires and rubies on ivory vines, Grapes of jade, just ripenin' in the shade, just ready for the squeezin' into green jade wine. Pure gold corn there, Blowin' in the warm air. Ol' crow nibblin' on the amnythyst seeds. In between the diamonds, Ol' man Simon crawls about pullin' out platinum weeds. Pink pearl berries, all you can carry, put 'em in a bushel and haul 'em into town. Up in the tree there's opal nuts and gold pears- Hurry quick, grab a stick and shake some down. Take a silver tater, emerald tomater, fresh plump coral melons. Hangin' in reach. Ol' man Simon, diggin' in his diamonds, stops and rests and dreams about one... real... peach. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#fruit #gardening #jewelry #peaches #dreams

To dwell is to garden. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#dwell #garden

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

#always #like #live #look #people

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#care #children #flower #gardens #get

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#around #beans #garden #green #how

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. ↗

— William Cowper

#garden #greenhouse #loves #too #who

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#about #all day #away #breeze #buds

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#another #colors #creating #form #how

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#appeared #arrangement #arts #creative #culmination