I couldn’t help snapping these pictures when we visited a nursery a few months ago to get our little garden project started. I thought I’d share the beauty of these flowers with you today and also some quotes on gardening that I’m finding so true.
Inspirational Gardening Quotes
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. – Francis Bacon
A garden always gives back more than it receives. – Mara Beamish
Every garden is a chore sometimes, but no real garden is nothing but a chore. – Nancy Grasby
Where flowers bloom so does hope. – Lady Bird Johnson
A garden isn’t meant to be useful. It’s for joy. – Rumer Godden
An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life. – Cora Lea Bell
He who plants a garden plants happiness. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, plant a garden. – Chinese Proverb
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. – John Ruskin
So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. – Author unknown
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. – Chinese proverb
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow. – Author Unknown
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. – Kozuko Okakura
When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves. – Ken Druse
The ‘Amen!’ of Nature is always a flower. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Earth laughs in flowers – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Check out my friend, Fran’s Sorin’s book Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening
“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time. ” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
Lovely — Thank you for sharing! XO
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