Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbour’s motorised garden tiller. If your neighbour does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one. Dave Barry
Gardening is not a rational act. Margaret Atwood
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
Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next, and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all. Katherine Whitehorn
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. Gertrude Jekyll
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig…Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it. Gertrude Jekyll
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. Doug Larson