“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
— Anonymous
“If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.”
— J.C. Raulston
"Every garden is unique with a multitude of choices in soils, plants and themes. Finding your garden theme is as easy as seeing what brings a smile to your face."
- Teresa Watkins
“You know you’re a gardener when you’re happy to devote three months of your life growing tomatoes to save $1.27.”
— Anonymous
"When did my wild oats turn to prunes and all bran?"
- Lucy Parker
"Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again."
- Henry Beard
"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
- Dorothy Parker
“Cauliflower is a cabbage with a college education.”
— Mark Twain
Housework is for people who don’t know how to garden.”
— Anonymous
“Gardener’s recipe: one-part soil, two-parts water, three-parts wishful thinking.”
— Anonymous
"I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died."
- Richard Diran
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."
- Charles Dudley Warner
“I probably wouldn’t kill so many houseplants if they could scream for food and water the way my pets and children do.”
— Anonymous
"The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig."
- Texas Bix Bender, Don't Throw in the Trowel
"I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn."
- C.E. Cowman
"Real gardeners buy at least ten thousand plants in the course of a lifetime without having the least idea where they'll put any of them when they get home."
— Anonymous
"What did the carrot say to the wheat?
Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet."
- Shel Silverstein
"Even if the farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start."
- E.W. Howe
"The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden."
- Ray D. Everson
“Don’t wear perfume in the garden – unless you want to be pollinated by bees.”
— Anne Raver
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