I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all kinds of flowers and plants. I've never had enough money to buy a big enough garden space.
I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.
And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.
"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
I'm huge on spring and summer gardening. I'm really proud of my perennial beds. That's a passion of mine.
I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.
I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed.
We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.
