Chinese saying "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is now."
Gertrude Jekyll "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." and "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust."
Audrey Hepburn "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
Anon "Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes."
"You can't buy happiness but you can buy plants and that's pretty much the same thing."
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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"If it's yellow, let it mellow;
If it's brown, flush it down."
Gertrude Jekyll "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." and "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust."
Audrey Hepburn "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
Anon "Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes."
"You can't buy happiness but you can buy plants and that's pretty much the same thing."
”A dictator is like a beech tree - magnificent in its prime but under which nothing grows” Stanley Baldwin