A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You'...
The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.
Gardening is not a rational act.
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.
To dwell is to garden.
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
The earth laughs in flowers.
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
