#gardening

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#caring #effort #experience #garden #gardener

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#autumn #faithfully #farmer #harvest #only

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. ↗

— Carolus Linnaeus

#another #dies #place #plant #tree

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. ↗

— Juliet Mills

#british #called #cats #chelsea #cooking

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

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#always #better #flowers #food #happier

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#better #garden #lot #neglected #tended

Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes. If we do this, our plants will thrive, we’ll grow nutritious, healthy food, and our soil conditions will get better each year. This is what is meant by the adage ”Feed the soil not the plants. ↗

— Jane Shellenberger

#plants #soil #food

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #gardening #green #japan #sustainability

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. ↗

— Dogen Zenji

#attain #enlightenment #fences #plants #practice