Flower Preservation Quotes

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.

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.

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

Here's my problem. On Valentine's Day the flowers are wilting and so am I.

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

I've always loved flowers, as a little girl I'd collect flower objects and little flower books. Now I love flowers on my night table and on my desk.

When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

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