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It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more.
George Eliot

In That Spot: Lilactree Farm Garden Notes, No. 1, 2011

by Brian Bixley on March 30, 2011

I am all for playing rough with things [i.e., plants] that play rough with us, and for making them behave as our servants, not our masters.
Vita Sackville-West

September at Lilactree Farm

by Brian Bixley on September 29, 2010

Gardening may be the most exasperating occupation under the sun, but it gives as much as it gets--no more no less. Life in a garden is one long war with the powers of Evil, but the victory is worth winning. Maddening catastrophes are followed by spectacular triumphs. One minute you are flat on your face, and the next you are soaring on the wings of the morning.
Reginald Arkell

Winter Thaw Discoveries

by Kathy Purdy on December 29, 2009

Men with trucks do not see new plantings when reversing or unloading, so trees must wait [to be planted] until all hard landscaping is done.
Marylyn Abbott

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September 2009

by Kathy Purdy on September 15, 2009

The trouble with master plans in gardens, then, is simply that they do not take into account masterful plants. Nor addled masters.
Henry Mitchell
Not everyone has the personality to have a public farm.
Thomas Hahn, Hahn Farm

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