Plant Care Quotes

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.

What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I've always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

Water the root to enjoy the fruit.

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 walk out to my backyard garden at certain times of the year, and I can't get 30 feet without stopping for 20 minutes because the goumis need trimming.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

Turns out tomato feed is the gift that keeps on giving. It's good for any plant.

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.

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away.

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

I'm a flower gardener.

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

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.