"To create a garden is to create a better world."

----Marina Schinz

 

 

Red Velvet

May 9, 2006

Photo by BT

 

 

"All gardening is landscape painting."

----Alexander Pope

 

 

Baskets of ivy geraniums

May 9, 2006

 

 

 

"Spring is when life's alive in everything."

-----Christina Rossetti

 

 

 

Black Magic ivy Geranium

May 4, 2006

 

 

"As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings."

-----Celia Thaxter

 

 

Picasso ivy geranium

 

"See how nature---trees, flowers, grass---grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."

---Mother Teresa

 

Lavender Blizzard

 

 

"Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it."

---Lewis Gannit

 

 

Solidor

 

 

"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

----Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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