"Oh give us pleasure in
the flowers today."
----Robert Frost
White Nicole
"Flowers have spoken to me more
than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of
angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though
few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."----Lydia M. Child
Solidor in the afternoon of a June
day.
"The sound of summer is
everywhere....a faint resonance seems to come from the very earth
itself."
----Richard Jefferies, "The
Pageant of Summer," Longman's magazine, June, 1883
Felix in the June sunshine.
"A garden isn't meant to
be useful. It's for joy."
----Rumer Godden, "China
Court", 1961
Barbebleau
"Gardening gives me fun
and health and knowledge. It gives me laughter and colour. It
gives me pictures of almost incredible beauty."
----John
F. Kenyon
"Let us be grateful to people
who make us happy. They are charming gardeners who make out souls
blossom."
----Marcel Proust
