“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.”
Gertrude Jekyll
HappinessPassion
Gardening Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · GARDENING
Gardening Quotes
Read the best gardening quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dudley Warner, Gertrude Jekyll, Shakespeare, the Bible and more, with timeless words about planting and growing.
“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
Garden DesignPossibility
“Planting ground is painting a landscape with living things.”
Gertrude Jekyll
Garden DesignArt
“If I could only dig and plant myself! How much easier, and how much more satisfactory to prepare one's own beloved borders.”
Elizabeth von Arnim
Hands OnPassion
“I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year.”
Francis Bacon
Year Round GardenSeasons
“The sweetness of the air, the pleasantness of smell, the verdure of plants, the exercises of working or walking; but above all, the exemption from cares and solicitude, seem equally to favour and improve both contemplation and health.”
Sir William Temple
WellbeingPeace Of Mind
“I come now to the pleasures of husbandry, in which I vastly delight.”
Cicero
FarmingJoy Of Gardening
“What shall I learn of beans or beans of me?”
Henry David Thoreau
VegetablesReflection
“Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men?”
Henry David Thoreau
SeedsFuture Generations
“Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Positive ThinkingMind Garden
“And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, and some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.”
Rudyard Kipling
GardenersFunny
“Why, the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake.”
Lewis Carroll
RosesFunny
“It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass.”
Oscar Wilde
LawnsBeauty
“I have many beautiful flowers, but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.”
Oscar Wilde
ChildrenFlowers
“Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, thou's met me in an evil hour.”
Robert Burns
WildflowersPoetry
“Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, why do ye fall so fast?”
Robert Herrick
BlossomsSeasons
“Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.”
John Milton
Spring FlowersPoetry
“Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow; do you or I or anyone know how oats, peas, beans, and barley grow?”
Mother Goose
Kids GardeningNursery Rhymes
“The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell, heigh-ho, the derry-o, the farmer in the dell.”
Mother Goose
FarmingNursery Rhymes
“Why should we in the compass of a pale keep law and form and due proportion?”
William Shakespeare
Garden DesignOrder
“Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruin'd, her knots disorder'd, and her wholesome herbs swarming with caterpillars.”
William Shakespeare
NeglectPests
“For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep seeming and savour all the winter long.”
William Shakespeare
HerbsWinter
“The pleached bower, where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, forbid the sun to enter.”
William Shakespeare
Garden DesignSummer
“Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.”
William Shakespeare
HerbsWeeds
“It was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord.”
The Bible (Genesis 13:10)
WateringParadise