Recipes

This is what the true gardener expects. He knows that 'gardening is eleven months of hard work and one month of disappointment.'

No real garden should ever show bare earth, much less a sea of bark mulch, which always represents both an opportunity lost and a failure of horticultural seriousness.

In its own way, frost may be one of the most beautiful things to happen in your garden all year . . . Don't miss it. Like all true beauty, it is fleeting. It will grace your garden for but a short while this morning. . . . For this moment, embrace frost as the beautiful gift that it is.

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

…the shivery perfection that winter can bring to our gardens.

But here experience speaks: never be too far away from man or machine until the sweep of the last [Bobcat] blade, for those who have watched these men at work will know about the amazing interpretations of a plan that can occur.

If you try to think of gardening as a science, it doesn't work. There are too many variables. It's an art.