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I think you need to be possessed to farm, you have to have a calling.
Gardening at first felt like a natural pleasure, and then it became a necessary one.
Watering, though apparently easy, is difficult to do properly. Ensuring the roots are neither drying nor drowning is an underappreciated art.
Intensive gardening, biodynamic bed-building, and every other gardening technique will seriously insult your imagination if you follow every step blindly. Every gardener should experiment and adapt.
The garden and gardener have grown alongside each other over the years, each shaping the other.
Forsythia is a sheer joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia.
Fantasy makes all gardens grow. Without it you may have yard, plot, park, grounds, but you lack the essential ingredient of garden, the element that seizes the imagination and transports or envelops you into a world invented by the gardener.
Artichokes are no fools.
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
There is nothing better to cure a wicked case of self obsession that a good dose of fresh air and dirty work.
'I have had almost every rose that you can grow,' she says, 'and some died, but at least I have made their acquaintance.'
Gardening is the most profound and complex of the arts, operating not just inessentially or marginally through time, but deliberately and consciously. What makes a garden great is the tension between the dimensions, between what is structurally permanent and what is temporarily, immediately, imposed upon that structure.
The biggest crocuses are also excellent for gardeners who fear they are themselves getting almost too refined to breathe.
