Garden Design Quotes

“All gardening is landscape painting.”

Alexander Pope

“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.”

Gertrude Jekyll

“Planting ground is painting a landscape with living things.”

Gertrude Jekyll

“Why should we in the compass of a pale keep law and form and due proportion?”

“The pleached bower, where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, forbid the sun to enter.”

“Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues.”

Rudyard Kipling