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

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

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

For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass.

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.