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.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.