"In the company of flowers
we know happiness."
----John Stewart Collis
Royal Dark Blue ivy geranium
October 13, 2006
"One of the most delightful
things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. "
- W. E. Johns
Barbe Bleau
October 17, 2006
"To create a garden is to search
for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are
guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural
masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the
expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is
at the heart of all gardening. - Marina Schinz
Iceberg Rose
October 17, 2006
"People from a planet without
flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to
have such things about us."
----Iris Murdoch
Arctic Red ivy geranium
October 11, 2006
"Flowers are the beautiful
hieroglyphics of nature by which she indicates how much she loves
us."
----Johann Von Goerthe, German Poet
A pot of Christmas Cactus, Holiday
White starting to bloom
October 4, 2006
"It is the sweet, simple
things of life which are the real ones after all."
---Laura Ingalls Wilder
Bower vine flower
October4, 2006
"In the company of flowers
we know happiness."
----John Stewart Collis
Sundance
"Gardening is a ritual that
responds to a desire in people to restore order. It says that
everything is fine in the midst of chaos and bewilderment."
----Barbara Tuchman
