gardening sayings

[blokkertjebl]

I am collecting some garden(ing) sayings/quotes to write out, laminate and put around in my garden - so generally no longer than 4 lines. Can you help? It doesn't have to be from well known people, yours is welcome, I will mention your name on the card. I cannot guarantee a commission -lol
thanks very much

[Clanad]

I especailly like "A weed is but a flower growing where you don't want it"...
And... "Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden"
And finally, "All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirit soars."

[shaneystar2]

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.


Gardening requires lots of water ... most of it in the form of perspiration.

My garden will never make me famous,
I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

[Thunderbird+]

Training is everything.
The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Gardening requires lots of water....most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Ericson (1840-1921)

A ring around the moon or sun and rain approaches on the run.

Tender handed stroke the nettle and it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of metal, And it soft as silk remains.

Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow -rooted,
suffer them now and they'll outgrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

March comes in with an adders head and goes out with a peacox tail.

One years seed, seven years weed.

[Thunderbird+]

Ticle it with a hoe and it will laugh into a harvest.

On no other ground can I sow my seed, without tearing up
some stinking weed.

Turnips like a dry bed but a wet head.

Plant melons, harvest melons;
plant beans harvest beans.
(ie as ye sow. shall ye reap)

Plant garlic on the shortest day, harvest on the longest day.

Parsley before it is born is seen by the devil nine times.

In summer cut a bough of bay eat rich stew' til Easter Day.

It is not enough for a gardener to love his flowers and his vegetables; he must also hate his weeds.

[rosyrussell]

Speaking as a professional gardener, my favourite quote by far is by Rudyard Kipling - 'gardens are not made by sitting in the shade' - I keep muttering this to myself when I am up to my ears in dirt!

[blokkertjebl]

MANY thanks to all who came with some inspiring answers! all will be used in the garden!
Dorien

[dingaling]

Serene he stands amidst the flowers
and only counts life's sunny hours
for him dull days do not exist
the brazen faced old optimist