Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough.

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

I've got really into gardening.

I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to heat our passive solar home that they figured out how to design and build together. I was the kid with green peppers in my lunch, and I liked them!

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it, I've done it all my life but at heart, I'm just a passionate amateur gardener.