horticulturist, painter, gardener, non-fiction writer, botanist, architect, landscape architect, garden designer, photographer, editor
1843 – 1932
Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and refreshment of mind and body. This sense of beauty is a gift of God.
The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.