A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.