I'm In The Garden Today

“First find your bees a settled sure abode…” ~Virgil, The Georgics, IV Honey bees swarm. It’s a fact of nature. When their colony gets to...

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. ~John Erskine Not all the love of gardens has to do wit...

Human beings find less rest in idleness than in a change of occupation…just try it. Instead of collapsing in an easy chair, try tackling you...

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ~Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of ...

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card In the growing of zucchini, there’s ALWAYS one ...

If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener. ~J. C. Raulston Perhaps you remember this post featu...

In the sliding glass doors of the kitchen, I catch glimpses of an old woman hobbling around in my garden, and I realize in amazement that it...

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, a...

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freel...

Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt — marvelous error! that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making whi...