Garden Ponderings…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weather means more when you have a garden.  There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.  ~Marcelene Cox

 

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.  ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane

 

 

Take thy plastic spade,
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,
They are thy colours.
~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782

 

 

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.  ~Author Unknown

No two gardens are the same.  No two days are the same in one garden.  ~Hugh Johnson

 

Gardens… should be like lovely, well-shaped girls:  all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.  ~H.E. Bates, A Love of Flowers

 

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. 

~Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666

 

 

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.  ~W.E. Johns, The Passing Show

 

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.  ~Hanna Rion