"Adopt the pace of nature:
her secret is patience."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Decora Lavender
March 21, 2008
"Always try to grow in your garden
some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors
never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than
to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant
and ask, "What is that?"~Richardson
Wright
Decora Lavender
December 7, 2007
"It is only when you start
to garden - probably after fifty - that you realize something
important happens every day."
~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth
Decora Lavender ivy geranium
September 30, 2007
"Decora Lavender, your beauty
is your subtleness.............
You hide in the shade of the
terrace;
Peering out now and then
To share your beauty with the
world."
----BT
"To create a little flower
is the labor of ages."
- William Blake
Decora Lavender
August 27, 2007
"In the right light, at
the right time, everything is extraordinary."
-- Aaron Rose
"A garden always gives back
more than it receives."
----Mara Beamish
"In joy or sadness, flowers
are our constant friends."
----Kozuko Okakura
Decora Lavender
June 19, 2007
"The love of gardening is
a seed that once sown never dies."
---Gertrude Jekyll
Decora Lavender ivy geranium
May 14, 2007
"If you would be happy all
your life--plant a garden."
----Chinese Proverb
Decora Lavender
May 13, 2007
"In his garden every man may be his
own artist without apology or explanation."
----Louise Beebe Wilder