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Gardening is a madness and a rapture.
This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.
I work like a gardener.
Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.
Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.
In spring, when woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what I mean.
Gardening is all about optimism.
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.
Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
Sharp-angled blades of sunlight sliced open the heavy green canopy above, bleeding lemon-yellow splashes of warmth and light into the cool shade of my private oasis. Here,
I'm not a gardener. I wish I was.
The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
In front of us there is an immense garden of words and non-words, a serre, that is, a greenhouse in which are preserved by my care so many things of speech you have given me while leaving me free to cultivate them.
The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.
Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.
You know I know next to zip about gardening, right?
It's easy. You buy the pretty pots from the nursery, you stick them in the ground. If they die, you buy more. If not, you brag like there's no tomorrow.
From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.
Will plant! True to his word, on Friday, when she arrived, there were dozens of plants waiting by the garden plot that they had cleared earlier in the week. She stopped and stared at it, wondering at the quantity as well as where he had
Let us cultivate our garden.
Under a shady tree
can you feel the soft cool grass?
can you feel it with your toes?
we can sit here while it grows.
Laurie Berkner
The cabin will return to the soil when abandoned by its owner, yet in its simplicity it offers perfect protection against the seasonal cold without disfiguring the sheltering forest. With the yurt and the igloo, it figures among the handsomest human responses to environmental adversity.
Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
He plants to benefit another generation.
Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.
Gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.
The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives - the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil.
I just come and talk to the plants, really
very important to talk to them, they respond I find.
Plant today what you want to harvest tomorrow.
It's not just about facts, information and technical know how ... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.
The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold
Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying.
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
A well-tended garden will flourish.
Gardening requires lots of water ... most of it in the form of perspiration.
Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.
You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.
If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted.
A gardener's best tool is the knowledge from previous seasons. And it can be recorded in a $2 notebook.
For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.
You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.
I am sick of four walls and a ceiling
I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.
The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the wind
Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.
My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up.
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
A rising tower of wood and needles and branches and great slabs of bark that has grown for hundreds of years. An impossible castle made from air and sunlight, fixed in place by the power of photosynthesis and chlorophyll. Magic. With lights.
In the deep shadow of the porch
A slender bind-weed springs,
And climbs, like airy acrobat,
The trellises, and swings
And dances in the golden sun
In fairy loops and rings.
A soft and gentle growth
Under a blue sky
Over a high mountain
Extended over a vast land
When the sun comes up
Start growing
Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another.
Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.
Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
Well, one wearies of the Public Gardens: one wants a vacation
Where trees and clouds and animals pay no notice;
Away from the labeled elms, the tame tea-roses
Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.
Though he works and worries, the farmer
never reaches down to where the seed turns
into summer. The earth grants.
I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.
tree in bloom, a white farmhouse - potted basil in the kitchen
Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.
I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.
I've always had an affinity for growing things.
How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.
What are you talking about now?"
"A fascinating discourse on cherry agronomy and micro-climate zones."
"Hank."
"You know I have a head full of useless information.
No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.
I love the farm, I love growing stuff.
The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.
FreshWorld is in line with my vision of supporting sustainable technologies in solving problems. I feel this is the next-level disruption in the fruits and vegetables industry.
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green
In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.
A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.
A wall of heat. The furnace had to be turned up almost to eighty,
Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.
Nothing grows well without space and air.
What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
The sun isow behind the grey-green trees. And all the farm grows quiet by degrees. Among their many lessons this is best: the animals know when and how to rest!
Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.
The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods.
My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.
Arriving at a mansion with another gate, low and nearly invisible inside its landscape gardening, seeming so much constructed of night itself that at sunrise it might all disappear.
I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"
A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.
Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.
Gardeners are the ultimate mixologists.
Garden is garden.
As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.