The Love Of Gardening Is A Seed

In Garden Arrangement, As In All Other Kinds Of Decorative Work, One Has Not Only To Acquire A Knowledge Of What To Do, But Also To Gain Some Wisdom In Perceiving What It Is Well To Let Alone.

If You Take Any Flower You Please And Look It Over And Turn It About And Smell It And Feel It And Try To Find Out All Its Little Secrets, Not Of Flower Only But Of Leaf, Bud And Stem As Well, You Will Discover Many Wonderful Things. This Is How You Make Friends With Plants, And Very Good Friends You Will Find Them To The End Of Our Lives.

The Love Of Gardening Is A Seed Once Sown That Never Dies.

There Is Always In February Some One Day, At Least, When One Smells The Yet Distant, But Surely Coming, Summer.

The Lesson I Have Thoroughly Learnt, And Wish To Pass On To Others, Is To Know The Enduring Happiness That The Love Of A Garden Gives.