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In the end, this may be the most important thing about frost: Frost slows us down. In spring, it tempers our eagerness. In fall, it brings closure and rest. In our gotta-go world--where every nanosecond seems to count--slowness can be a great gift. So rather than see Jack Frost as an adversary, you could choose to greet him as a friend.
Philip Harnden

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September 2009

by Kathy Purdy on September 15, 2009

I cannot live without a rose, especially a climbing or rambling rose, for just one truss tumbling in the right spot can be like that last long feather on a hat, a nonchalant sweep that lifts a perfectly acceptable design to another level, a throwaway gesture that means nothing and everything.
Marylyn Abbott

What a Garden Project in Progress Looks Like

by Kathy Purdy on July 10, 2008

Gardeners always delight in doing something that another gardener says can't be done.
Elizabeth Lawrence

Kathy’s Autumn Picture Show

by Kathy Purdy on October 21, 2006

A writer who gardens is sooner or later going to write a book about the subject--I take that as inevitable.
Eleanor Perenyi

Pretty in Pink?

by Kathy Purdy on October 11, 2006

It isn’t that I don’t like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
Vita Sackville-West

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