I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?