I'm In The Garden Today

"To dig in one's own earth, with one's own spade, does life hold anything better?"   ~Beverly Nichols, 1898-1982, Briti...

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison (16...

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh proverb Ruts are easy to fall into. I don’t mean the kind along t...

"Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bri...

“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...