The Perfect Garden

HAPPY CLEMATIS THURSDAY 

 

Is there such a thing as the perfect garden? If you ask me the answer is NO!

Each winter I move plants, pull out plants, and plan to buy plants all in an effort create the perfect garden for the next year. I never seem to be satisfied with the garden that I have. This year I added 6 clematis plants in hopes of having the flowers climb wherever they may. Clematis is a workhorse and announces spring is here.

Any gardener that you speak with will tell you that the garden they have has taken years of trials and errors and is always a work in progress. In my book "Diary of A Wannabe Gardener" Samantha learns there is no such thing as the perfect garden. But all gardens are beautiful and individual.

Below is what some famous people have had to say about gardening and gardeners:

DOROTHY FRANCES GURNEY:
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth. "Garden Thoughts"

ELIZABETH MURRAY:
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.

LEWIS GANNIT:
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.

THOMAS MOORE:
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

FRANCIS BACON
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

So, it's gardening time 2024 and soon every gardener will be having gardening fever. Are you working on your perfect garden? What is your idea of a perfect garden? Is it a rose garden like mine or a perennial garden which I also strive to have? Are you the annual pop of pow type of gardener? Let's talk. WHAT IS YOUR FAMOUS QUOTE ABOUT GARDENING OR GARDENERS? Please share.

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