Hard to believe these tiny gems will be heading south shortly. Hadn’t they only just arrived? Still hoping to get a few better shots before that happens. | August 28, 2026
The goldfinch are fond of our volunteer sunflowers | August 20, 2026
The dahlias, zinnas, and cosmos are the stars of the week as the coneflowers have begun to fade. Indoors, we currently have four Monarch chrysalides slowly approaching eclosion. | August 6, 2026
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
Truman Capote
The optimist
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Khalil Gibran
After women
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
Christian Dior
Love is like wildflowers
Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where flowers bloom
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
Let us live like flowers
Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.
Ellen Everett
A flower blossoms
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Oscar Wilde
The garden suggests
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan
Coffee. Garden. Coffee.
Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?
Betsy Caas Garmon
No Gardening Mistakes
There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.
Janet Kilburn Phillips
The hum of bees
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.
Elizabeth Lawrence
When the world wearies
When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.
Minnie Aumonier
There is nothing that is comparable
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling as gathering vegetables one has grown.
Alice B. Toklas
To plant a garden
To plant a garden is to dream of tomorrow.
Audrey Hepburn
Help us to be ever faithful
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton
I grow plants for many reasons
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson
The Glory of Gardening
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin
Flowers are the Music
Flowers are the music of the ground from earth's lips spoken without sound.
The Webster Viridarium
