Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
All gardening is landscape painting.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it...
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.