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Gertrude Jekyll
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“The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Dig, Plant, and Grow! (2009) by Louise Spilsbury, p. 13
“I am strongly of the opinion that possession of plants, however good, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection.”
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes.”
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and refreshment of mind and body. This sense of beauty is a gift of God.”
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me to be the best thing to do in gardening.”
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source