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But gardening is the art of the frustratingly imaginable, of triumph against ridiculous odds, and even rock-gardeners, devoted to the cult and cultivation of the nearly-invisible, must sometimes dream grandiosely.

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

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Agri-tourism is the last refuge of agriculture