Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God’s masterpiece?

I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.