Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

I love gardens!

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

I love working in the garden.

To be able to buy a plant and plant it, that's a luxury to me.

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!

It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how we garden and hardly at all on why we garden.

I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.

I like my garden. It sounds boring, but it's not.

I'm happier in a garden.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.