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But along the way we really do learn that marigolds gain enormously in impact when used as sparingly as ultimatums.

Almost anything you do in the garden, for example weeding, is an effort to create some sort of order out of nature's tendency to run wild. There has to be a certain degree of domestication in a garden. The danger is that you can so tame a garden that it becomes a thing. It becomes landscaping.

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.

Artichokes are no fools.

But a garden is somewhat exalted above ordinary notions of correctness. A garden is more than a matter of the right fish fork, as it were.

The garden was all in blue and gold, blue was the color of his wife's eyes and gold the color of her hair.

What you plant in your garden reflects your own sensibility, your concept of beauty, your sense of form. Every true garden is an imaginative construct, after all.

A garden raised from seed is a garden raised in the heart, the gardener growing along with the garden.

Gardens are like those extraordinary Faberge eggs made for the czars, revealing surprise after surprise as the season progresses, each week showing some new wonder.