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loved gardening quotes
Clarington
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I'm trying (on top of work, decorating, generally being awesome) to create a rather overly ambitious gift for grandfathers special birthday. For part of it I would love to sew in a special quote about gardening (one of his favourite hobbies alongside photography) but I really can't find anything.
So I thought I would sneak on here (sssh I'm meant to be cooking) and find some inspiration from my wonderful friends on here. Do you have a favourite quote that sums up the pleasure you find in the garden?
Thank you 
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Dont think this is appropriate for what you want, but on a farmers question time on the radio sometime ago, someone asked about sowing grass seed, the question was answered and then he said "the secret of a good lay is a firm bottom"
'One year's seed, five years' weed'.
'You are nearer Gods heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth'. This is a quote from a well known poem, but can't find the dictionary of quotations to tell you more details. 'The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth...' something like that
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
To be happy for an hour get drunk.
To be happy for a day kill your pig and eat it.
To be happy for a week get married.
To be happy for a lifetime plant a garden.
There is a poem by Vita Sackwille West called 'Gardener' from The Land. Its a long poem but Im sure you would find something in it suitable
..from the shores of Ullswater, surely there's no better gardener than nature itself, beautifully described here....
....I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze ....
.....For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
"Gardening needs a lot of water....most of it in the form of perspiration!"
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll
It's come out in bold print, what did I click