Spreading the Joy

“I know a little garden close, Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night”. – William Morris

“The tulip is a courtly quean” … – Thomas Hood

 

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet

 

“My garden will never make me famous, I’m a horticultural ignoramus.” – Ogden Nash

 

“But Shakespeare also says, ’tis very silly,  `To gild refinèd gold, or paint the lily” – Lord Byron

 

“There is no blue like the blue cup the tall delphinium holds up” – Louise Driscoll

 

“The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green.” – William Cullen Bryant

 

“Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers also feed the soul.” – The Koran

“Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.” – Herbert V. Prochnow, Sr.