Garden Quote of the day

I thought we might continue this thread since I've enjoyed it alot.

"If you have a garden an a library, you have everything you need." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero(106-43 B.C.)

I've bought several new gardening books that were recommended on past Carolina GW threads and am looking forward to devouring them soon.
Shari

Shari -
THANKS so much for carrying on with Quote of the Day! and a GREAT quote to start us off :)
marsha

Mark your calendars, it's official, you fanatics!

The gardening season officially begins on January 1st and ends on December 31.
- Marie Huston

Mark your calendars, it's official, you fanatics!

The gardening season officially begins on January 1st and ends on December 31.
- Marie Huston

Every blade of grass, each leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription speaking of hope...
So that my hope becomes as broad as the horizon afar, reiterated by every leaf, sung on every bough, reflected in the gleam of every flower.
~Richard Jefferies

I am strongly of the opinion that a quantity of plants, however
good the plants may be themselves and however ample their
number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection.

- Gertrude Jekyll
"Colour in the Flower Garden" (1908)

Well I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who would call what I have a collection. I'm still trying very hard to make it a garden. Is she referring to mass plantings of one type of plant or just design in general?

i wish i could talk to ol' gertrude for a few days ... or months.
she may have been alluding to some gardener's lack of design
& effect considerations .. or perhaps it's a reference to a segment
of gardeners who believe "those with the most plants, wins" ... they collect all the desireables without much appreciation for them.

Hi ya'll!
Thought I would drop by and say hello and see what you rascals are up to. Missin' you at the other place.
TTFN

~Annie