If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
~Audra Foveo

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
~Abram L. Urban

Not really a gardening quote, but it certainly applies to the smilax vines that pop up everywhere in the summer around here.

"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 spirits soar."
~Helen Hayes

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
~Alfred Austin

- Joni Mitchell/"Woodstock"

--My Italian Grandmother

"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."

But I also like the quote attributed to Dorothy Parker when she was challenged to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence.

And someday I am going to get a custom-printed sign or doormat that says "Welcome to Shankgrala" (because our last name is Shank).

Lois in PA

Look at the flowers, look at them growing,
They never worry, they never work.
Look at the way our Father clothes them,
Each with beauty all its own.
Each with beauty all its own.

Some plant the seeds that others will water,
But in all things, God gives the growth.
Come let Him garden the flowers within you,
Come and discover some you've never known.
Come and discover some you've never known.

Look at the love that lies deep within you,
Let yourself be! Let yourself be!
Look at the gifts you have been given.
Let them go free! Let them go free!
Let them go free! Let them go free!

Seedmama

Some of my standby favorites:
"We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." (Native American proverb, I think)

"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
and from thy slender store
Two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy Hyacinths to feed thy Soul." (Saadi)

"In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love" (Baha'u'llah)

"Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade."
(Rudyard Kipling)

Quote:(You may commence panicking now, if so inclined, though statistically, driving to the grocery store is more dangerous. So panic in moderation, if you can.)

" To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven."

Don't remember from whom, it's on a plaque in my garden though.
Pattie

Free Weeds, you pick! ")

Bless these Blooms

Friends & Butterflys gather here

Take time to smell the Flowers

Caution : Bee & Butterfly Crossing

"If you're not living in Eden, it's because you didn't tend the garden."
My son during a conversation on our way to school.

(William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream)

He had just turned 4 and wanted to help me plant my WS seedlings. I showed him how he could help and he just loved carrying the containers to the lawn cart, taking them out of the lawn cart and digging in the dirt with me.

Later in the day I sat on the ground with him and was lamenting about how many containers where still left and said, "what are we going to do? We're running out of room to plant all the seedlings."

This poor little 4 year old just looked at me with that 4 year old puzzled look that says "what are you talking about?".
He got up and ran all around the front yard, stopped in lots of places looking at the ground, the dirt, the lawn. Then he bent down with a little trowel and dug up a bit of dirt and ran back to me, showed me the dirt and said.

"dirt, dirt everywhere, dig a hole and plunk it in". then he grabbed a container and ran back to the whole he dug, took out the seedling and "plunked it in the hole, pushed the dirt around it and said.
"plenty of room, dirt, dirt, everywhere, dig a hole and plunk it in."

That was the last time I worried about where to put the seedlings. We stuffed them in the beds I already had, and spent the rest of the summer and fall digging new beds where there was "dirt."

So the favorite garden quote is from a 4 year old.

"PLENTY OF ROOM.'DIRT, DIRT, EVERYWHERE, DIG A HOLE AND PLUNK IT IN."

Fran

ANother one of my favorites I quote in the greenhouse a lot is:

"Grow, damn it!"

Mick Jagger.

Such a wise Nonna! Good advice, since my son stole all my gardening tools and lost them in the sandbox!! Now I'm off to re-purpose a spoon, and play in the dirt!

"Dirt, dirt everywhere... dig a hole and plunk it in!"

love it!

"There's your plan and there's God's plan...your plan doesn't matter." -- David Geffen, successful music producer.

My grandpa to me when I was a little girl

Fran

This is one of my first memories with my Mom out among her flowers, while holding a dewy rose under my nose to smell and hugging me close, she told me this.