I am strongly of the opinion that possession of plants, however good, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. - Gertrude Jekyll

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

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.

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.