I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.