"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