Gardening is an increasingly popular hobby, spanning all demographics and environments. From converting extra land into sustainable vegetable gardens, to city rooftops blooming lush herbs, people are showing off their green thumbs all over the world. You can join the blooming movement much easier than you think! Learn how to start your own garden from our green-thumbed experts and completely transform your home and yard.
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Garden Quotes We Love
- “Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.” – Elizabeth Murray
- “Gardening is a work of the heart.” – Unknown
- “Gardening is the art of living, and living is an art.” – Unknown
- “Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.” – Unknown
- “The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.” – Hanna Rion
- “A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” – Gertrude Jekyll
- “My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.” – H. Fred Dale
- “Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.” —Herbert V. Prochnow
- “A garden is a friend you can visit anytime.” – Unknown
- “Gardening is the work of a lifetime: You never finish.” – Oscar de la Renta
- “The best tool in the garden is the knowledge of a gardener.” — Unknown
- “A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume, or an arabesque in itself.” — Roberto Burle Marx
- “The moment you plant a seed, you invite the unknown. You break the soil’s surface, you crack a piece of the Earth apart, and you send something in. With only faith and hope, you wait to see what will break through the ground. It’s a terrifying thought.” — Michael Pollan
Funny Gardening Quotes
- “In every gardener there is a child who believes in the seed fairy.” – Robert Brault
- “Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.” – Unknown
- “Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.” – Mac Griswold
- “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
- “Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.” – Unknown
- “Gardening is the art of keeping up with the weeds.” – Unknown
- “Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.” – Lou Erickson
- “Why do gardeners make good detectives? Because they have all the dirt.” — Source Unknown
- “All gardeners know better than other gardeners.” — Chinese Proverb
- “If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener” — J. C. Raulston
Inspiring Quotes About Gardening
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- “The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives..” – Gertrude Jekyll
- “The best fertilizer is the gardener’s shadow.” – Unknown
- “Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.” – Unknown
- “The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature.” – Alfred Austin
- “The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.” – Michael Pollan
- “Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.” – Allan Armitage
- “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.” – Alfred Austin
- “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb
- “A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.” — William Kent
- “When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.” – Minnie Aumonier
- “There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” — Janet Kilburn Phillips
Garden Quotes from Famous Figures
- “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” – Claude Monet
- “Gardening is an instrument of grace.” – May Sarton
- “Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.” – Francis Bacon
- “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.” – Rudyard Kipling
- “Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.” – Oscar de la Renta
- “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
- “A garden is never so good as it will be next year.” – Thomas Cooper
- “The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.” – Elizabeth Lawrence
- “To see things in the seed, that is genius.” — Lao Tzu
- “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” — Thomas Jefferson
- “When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” — Sigmund Freud
- “Now ’tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they’ll o’ergrow the garden.” — William Shakespeare
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