Great Gardening Quotes

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.

Great Gardening Quotes

During my career I come across some really great gardening quotes. I thought it would be great for me to share some of these with you so I’ve listed some of the best gardening quotes below….

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.
Janet Kilburn Phillips

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life.
Cora Lea Bell

To dig one’s own spade into one’s own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
Beverley Nichols

A garden is never so goodas it will be next year.
Thomas Cooper

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
Author Unknown

I’m not really a career person. I’m a gardener, basically.
George Harrison

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

Gardening is a kind of self-prescribed preventative medicine, good for all ills.
Sheryl London

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.
C. Z. Guest

There is not a spot of ground, however arid, bare, or ugly, that cannot be tamed.
Jekyll

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.
H. E. Bates

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.
Richard Briers

In gardens, beauty is a by-product.  The main business is sex and death.
Sam Llewelyn

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
Hanna Rion

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
Mirabel Osler

Weather means more when you have a garden.  There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Marcelene Cox

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
Author Unknown

Gardens are a form of autobiography.
Sydney Eddison

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise.
Michael P. Garafalo

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
Thomas Fuller

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
Frank McKinney Hubbard

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
W.E. Johns

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
Russell Page

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.  If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
Author Unknown

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.
Linda Solegato

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.
Robert Brault

If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
Robert Brault

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.
Frank Swinnerton

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.
Robert Brault

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