“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
— William Cowper
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I grow plants for many reasons: to
“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.”
— David Hobson
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When a finished work of 20th century
“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.”
— Robert Smithson
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A person cannot love a plant after
“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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What a man needs in gardening is
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”
— Charles Dudley Warner
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The love of gardening is a seed
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”
— Gertrude Jekyll
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