Welcome to part 2 of our 2014 Gardening Quotations, or what we like to call “Growspiration”. Enjoy these quotes from the second half of 2014.

July

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.  -John Erskine

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. -Doug Larson

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. -James Douglas

Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower. -Unknown

August

Gardening is a kind of disease.  It infects you, you cannot escape it.  When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. -Lewis Gannit

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. -Alfred Austin

There are no happier folks than plant lovers and none more generous than those who garden. -Ernest “Chinese” Wilson

A clear breeze has no price, the bright moon no owner. -Song Hun

September

The garden is the poor man’s apothecary. – German Proverb

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. – Unknown

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation.  It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. – Karel Capek

That plant wasn’t a mistake, it was an experiment. – Unknown

October

A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul. -Sadi

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.  Mirabel Osler

Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. -Author Unknown

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener. -Robert Rodale

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before. -Vita Sackville-West

November

A garden always gives back more than it receives. -Mara Beamish

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. -Thomas Jefferson

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life. -Author Unknown

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. -Kozuko Okakura

December

If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. -Robert Brault

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. -Henry David Thoreau

Learn to be an observer in all seasons. Every single day, your garden has something new and wonderful to show you. -Unknown

Winds undulate while snow flakes accumulate! So cold it’s hard to believe we’ll be relieved but Spring has sunshine up her sleeve. And though we’re wary, we know snow is temporary! – Unknown