Love Gardening Quotes

#1. I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

Helen Mirren

#2. The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.

Denholm Elliott

#3. Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

Paige Butcher

#4. I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Jamaica Kincaid

#5. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think. Just now my garden is like faith - the substance of things hoped for.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. 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

#8. I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

Suzy Bogguss

#9. A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Dogen

#10. I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Jacqueline Bisset

#11. Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.

Margery Fish

#12. The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

Mary McCarthy

#13. If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

Arthur Smith

#14. I tend the flowers of my mind
Watering our memories as they bloom

Richard L. Ratliff

#15. I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

Blake Shelton

#16. A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#17. I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude?

Eva Mendes

#18. The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Luther Burbank

#19. A weed is but an unloved flower.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#20. I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

Carolyn Murphy

#21. I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

Scott Cohen

#22. It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

W.C. Sellar

#23. Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Vita Sackville-West

#24. I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

Steven Cojocaru

#25. My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

Susan Hampshire

#26. I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Gates McFadden

#27. I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

Shilpa Shetty

#28. My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

Juliet Mills

#29. Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Sitting Bull

#30. Falling for a person isn't a process. You can't plan for it in advance, or anticipate its arrival. Love strikes in single moments. Anywhere. Anytime. Some day you catch them gardening in the sun, or singing dreadfully in the shower, and you think, Oh, I could spend all my life with you

Beau Taplin

#31. A garden is a friend you can visit any time.

Okakura Kakuzo

#32. I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

Elton John

#33. The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Gertrude Jekyll

#34. Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.

Jim Nollman

#35. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

Elton John

#36. One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

Robert Fortune

#37. I do
sincerely trust that the benediction that is always
awaiting me in my garden may by degrees be more
deserved, and that I may grow in grace, and
patience, and cheerfulness, just like the happy
flowers I so much love.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#38. I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

Amanda Donohoe

#39. The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Gertrude Jekyll

#40. We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Evelyn Underhill

#41. I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

Jackie French

#42. I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

Sean Bean

#43. I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Barbra Streisand