flower care Quotes

You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

I'm a flower gardener.

Anyone can pluck a flowertrue strength is knowing how to give it life

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they're dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it'll make it better.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

I always have multiple ladybugs around because they're lucky, and they're good for flowers and the environment.

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Never look a tulip in the eye.

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

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.