Backyard Gardening 2022

 Backyard Gardening 2022

 

“If you've never experienced the 

joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine , 

plant a garden.”

Each planting, weeding, and gardening season bestows 

the gifts of joy, quiet time, contemplation, and hope. 

Gardening strengthens our spiritual health.

 “Tranquility, serenity, and beauty of nature taught 

us how to find happiness in life and in the

 silence of eternity.”

 “We always see gardening as escape, as peace really. 

If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides 

the same solace as nurturing the soil.”

“I’ve always felt that having a garden 

is like having a good and loyal friend.” 

– C Z Guest

 “I like gardening – it’s a place where I find myself 

when I want to lose myself.” 

– Alice Sebold

 “Gardens are not made by singing ‘

Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.”    

– Rudyard Kipling

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” 

– Audrey Hepburn

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.” 

                               – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, 

everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help.

 Gardening is an instrument of grace.”  

– May Sarton

 

“A garden is a grand teacher. 

It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; 

it teaches industry and thrift; 

above all it teaches entire trust.” 

– Gertrude Jekyll

“If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.” 

 – Robert Brault

“All gardening is landscape painting.” 

– William Kent 

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.” 

 – Alice Walker

“The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.” 

 – Monty Don 

“Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them.

 You’re always learning.” 

 – Helen Mirren

“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy,

 there is always the garden.” 

 – Minnie Aumonier

“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."" 

 – Alfred Austin

Life begins the day you start a garden. 

 – Chinese proverb

He who plants a garden plants happiness. 

 – Chinese proverb

More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. 

 – Spanish proverb

The garden is the poor man’s apothecary. 

 – German proverb

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. 

 – Japanese proverb

April showers bring May flowers. 

 – English proverb

All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. 

 – Indian proverb

All gardeners know better than other gardeners.

 – Chinese proverb

 When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” 

 – Lady Bird Johnson

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” 

 – Sigmund Freud

“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly".

 – William Wordsworth

“Flowers always make people better,

 happier, and more helpful;

 they are sunshine, food

 and medicine for the soul.” 

 – Luther Burbank

“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” 

 – Mahatma Gandhi

 

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” 

 – Gerard de Nerval

“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” 

 – Edwin Curran

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” 

 – Theodore Roethke

“Earth laughs in flowers.” 

 – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” 

 – Rabindranath Tagore

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” 

 – Oscar Wilde

Gardening is not a rational act. 

–Margaret Atwood 

  Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, 

but whose fragrance makes the garden 

a place of delight just the same. 

–Helen Keller

 If you truly love nature, 

you will find beauty everywhere.

–Vincent van Gogh

Gardening is a humbling experience. 

–Martha Stewart 

Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better. 

–Albert Einstein 

 

 Those who labor in the earth 

are the chosen people of God.

 –Thomas Jefferson

God Almighty first planted a garden. 

And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

 –Francis Bacon 

 Kiss of the sun for pardon. 

Song of the birds for mirth. 

You’re closer to God’s heart in a garden

 than any place else on earth. 

–Dorothy Frances Gurney

Gardening is how I relax. 

It’s another form of creating 

and playing with colors. 

–Oscar de la Renta 

A good garden may have some weeds. 

–Thomas Fuller 

 All gardeners know better than other gardeners. 

-Chinese Proverb

The best place to find God is in a garden. 

You can dig for him there. 

–George Bernard Shaw 

 

What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues 

have not yet been discovered. 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 No occupation is so delightful to me 

as the culture of the earth, and 

no culture comparable to that of the garden.

 -Thomas Jefferson

I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. 

It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. 

–Walt Disney 

 Kiss of the sun for pardon. 

Song of the birds for mirth. 

You’re closer to God’s heart in a garden 

than any place else on earth. 

–Dorothy Frances Gurney 

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.

 –Claude Monet 

Keep love in your heart. 

A life without it is like a sunless garden 

when the flowers are dead. 

–Oscar Wilde 

One of the most tragic things I know about 

human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. 

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden 

over the horizon instead of enjoying 

the roses that are blooming 

outside our windows today. 

–Dale Carnegie 

 

When you take a flower in your hand 

and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. 

I want to give that world to someone else. 

Most people in the city rush around so, 

they have no time to look at a flower. 

I want them to see it 

whether they want to or not. 

–Georgia O’Keefe

Cathy's favorite flower. . . . . .💕