“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.” - Wendell Berry, Remembering -   Yet another flight... I...

To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson - I hope 2012 brings you a great gardening ...

To make a prairie it takes one clover and one bee, One clover and a bee, and revery. The revery alone will do, if bees are few. -...

Today, it is the first of March and officially the first day of spring. I can't think of a better day for Karin Boye's poem Yes, of ...

* We don't express nature, we express our relations to nature. The fact of creating is the expression of nature. -Adaline Kent (1900-19...

The snowy white Camellia japonica 'Nuccio's Gem' is flowering now in my garden. The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ...

The glaucous Euphorbias are in full bloom, opening their lime-coloured and honey-scented flowers to the bees and the sun. To me, the great...

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena' in full bloom, its sweet scent carrying through the endless drops of rain. K Words are things, and...

And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that have never been. - Rainer Maria Rilke - I hope you all have a lovely, peaceful C...

Only tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly. - Elmer Diktonius - K I loved this Diktonius quote while I grew up in Finland. It seemed...

The enjoyment of beauty is dependent on, and in ratio with, the moral excellence of the individual. - The Crayon, New York's leading ar...

I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. K Twilight is the border between ...

Decayed literature makes the best soil - Henry David Thoreau - K Having been a voracious reader my whole life, my mental compost should by n...

What is a garden but a species of desire? Such a short sentence, containing the true essence of gardening... I love how it leaves everything...

Flowering Pacific native dogwood, Cornus nuttallii K I am too excited to concentrate on writing; I just "got" a garden and we ar...

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. - Alice Morse Earle, 1897 - K Sometimes I wonder if our gardens ...

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb -

In my nostrils still live the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. - Mark Twain - ... or more than twenty; I just thought a...

For fast acting relief; try slowing down. - Lily Tomlin (picture taken by me at Chelsea Flower Show 2007)

For those interested in garden design: A garden without trees scarcely deserves to be called a garden. - Henry Ellacombe For those thinking...