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Why didn't I do this last fall, when I
was younger and in better shape?
- Curt Pickens -
see What's
Coming Up #14
The very best garden is a new one, on
virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.
- Janet Macunovich -
Gardeners do first, read later. Why
not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.
- Janet Macunovich -
see What's
Coming Up #45 and What's Coming Up #76
I am a great believer in doing a job
when I want to do it, and to hell with the consequences.
- Christopher Lloyd -
see What's
Coming Up #178 and
What's Coming Up #183
We've learned over 25
years of interviewing other professional gardeners, especially in
public gardens, that NO ONE is ever 'all caught up.' Gardeners tell
us, 'If only I had more time!' That's the case no matter how large
a staff they have, how well tended their garden to begin with, or
how full-time they are.
- Janet -
See the two gentlemen low center in this gorgeous Scottish
Highland landscape? Like every other professional we've spoken to
they are never caught up... and furthermore have no love for
designers who specify terrace paths paved with gravel on a hill
devoid of any maintenance path for a cart. That's a barrow full of
gravel they're hefting up the steps. Designers, consider the
caretaker and insure the life of your landscape.
There's no "right way" to garden, only
what suits each person and place.
- Janet Macunovich
-
see What's
Coming Up #53
Ever noticed that a garden has an infinite capacity to
absorb new plants and accessories? By the cart full or the
truckload, it can accept what you bring without revealing any
change. It has an equal ability to absorb gardeners.
If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the
shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.
- Janet Macunovich -
see Growing
Concerns #758
You can just sit and enjoy your pretty garden -- most
gardeners do that too little -- while that person shows you the
"right way."
Untidiness in the garden does not
matter as long as the owner does not mind it.
- Christopher Lloyd -
see What's
Coming Up #49
There is a time and a place to garden,
and a time and a place simply to let things be.
- Ken Druse -
see What's
Coming Up #71
Stay healthy, be safe! A garden is
never finished but a gardener can be.
- Deb Hall -
see What's Coming Up #47
Altho' thy Teacher act not as he
preaches,
Yet ne'ertheless, if good, do what he teaches;
Good counsel, failing Men may give; for why,
He that's aground knows where the Shoal doth lie.
- Benjamin Franklin, in Poor
Richard's Almanack, 1734 -
see
What's Coming Up #73
Otherwise. 'Nuff said?
Some are weatherwise, some are
otherwise.
- Benjamin Franklin, in Poor
Richard's Almanack, 1735 -
see What's
Coming Up #35
Low care is what we do while on our
knees. Smart care is what makes the growing easier.
- Janet Macunovich -
see What's
Coming Up #129
If it doesn't grow well, compost
it.
- Janet Macunovich -
In addition to all its rich offerings
to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.
- Allen Lacy, in The Inviting
Garden -
see What's
Coming Up #153
We've learned over 25 years of
interviewing other professional gardeners, especially in public
gardens, that no one is ever "all caught up." Gardeners
tell us, "If only I had more time!" That's the case no matter how
large a staff they have, how well tended their garden to begin
with, or how full-time they are.
- Janet Macunovich -
Praise the large estate; but cultivate
a small one.
- Virgil -
You don't plant a garden, you grow a
garden. And be patient. Give everything a second chance.
- Marge Alpern -
see
What's Coming Up #163