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THE GALLOPING GARDENER

Autumn is a second spring ...

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is in flower.

Albert Camus

Autumn - The Galloping Gardener

It was one of those perfect ...

It was one of those perfect autumnal days which occur more

frequently in memory than in life.

P.D. James

Marwood Hill, Devon

An unhurried sense of time ...

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Lynn Johnston

Docton Mill, Devon

Stretching his hand to reach the stars ....

Stretching his hand to reach the stars,

he forgets the flowers at his feet.

Jeremy Bentham

Botanical Garden, Cienfuegos, Cuba

The garden suggests ...

The garden suggests there might be a place where

we can meet nature halfway.

Michael Pollan

Bonython, Cornwall

The fair weather gardener ...

The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when the wind

and the weather and everything else are favourable,

is never master of his craft.

Henry Ellacombe

RHS Wisley, Surrey

Let us be grateful ...

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are

the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Surrey

Great joys ....

Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

Shackerley Marmion

Godinton House, Kent

Dreams come true

Dreams come true. Without that possibility,

nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

Snowshill Manor, Glos

If you've never experienced ...

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more

than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Robert Brault

Stone House Garden, Glos

In nature nothing is perfect ...

In nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.

Alice Walker

Kiftsgate Court, Gloucestershire

Gardens ...

Gardens cannot be considered in detachment from the people who made them.

Derek Clifford

St Mary's House and Garden, West Sussex

A garden always gives back .....

A garden always gives back more than it receives.

Mara Beamish

Ventnor Botanic Garden, Isle of Wight

There is something fundamental ...

There is something fundamental to owning a garden that leaches

into every aspect of living.

Mirabel Osler

Barnsley House, Glos

No two gardens ...

No two gardens are the same. No two days

are the same in one garden.

Hugh Johnson

Longstock Water Park, Hampshire

It is good to be alone ...

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

Monk's House, East Sussex

What we see ...

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Gravetye Manor, West Sussex

There shall be eternal summer ...

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxter

Mapperton, Dorset

View from various resting places ....

Views from various resting places give us time to pause, look and see.

Rosemary Verey

Veddw, Monmouthshire

A man sooner or later ...

A man sooner or later discovers he is master-gardener

of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

Cothay Manor, Somerset

Life is like a landscape

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe

it only from the vantage point of distance.

Charles Lindbergh

The Roof Gardens, London

Hopes are planted ...

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden, where dreams

blossom into priceless treasures.

Author Unknown

Charts Edge, Kent

Plants give us oxygen ...

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.

Linda Solegato

Leonardslee Gardens, West Sussex

Gardening ...

Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the universe.

Thomas Berry

Parham House, West Sussex

Fairies ...

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to

believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams

The Garden House, Devon

Nature is ...

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

High Beeches, West Sussex

How fair is a garden ...

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.

Benjamin Disraeli

Pashley Manor Garden, East Sussex

April is a promise ....

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Hal Borland

Brighton Pavilion Garden, East Sussex

Great things are done ...

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

Swarovski Crystal Garden, Innsbruck, Austria

A garden must be looked into ...

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

George Herbert

Aberglasney Garden, Wales

No winter lasts ....

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland

Groombridge Place, Kent

In his garden every man ....

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology of

explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator.

Louise Wilder

Sissinghurst Castle, Kent

Keep love in your heart

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless

garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde

Allan Gardens Conservatory, Toronto

It is a golden maxim to cultivate ...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose,

and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Montreal Botanical Garden, Canada

In joy or sadness ...

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

Kozuko Okakura

Wakehurst Place, East Sussex

I love spring anywhere ...

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose,

I would always greet it in a garden.

Ruth Stout

Hever Castle, Kent

Gardening is ultimately a folly ....

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

Deborah Needleman

Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden

You don't have to garden ....

You don't have to garden just for yourself. You have to share it.

Augusta Carter

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden

Gardens are ...

Gardens are a form of autobiography.

Sydney Eddison

Filoli, CA

The man of leisure ....

The man of leisure looks at a garden with serenity, the man of skill

arranges it beautifully, the superior man enjoys its quintessence.

Zhong Xing

Majorelle Gardens, Marrakech, Morocco

One of the most delightful .....

One of the most delightful things about a garden is

the anticipation it provides.

W.E. Johns

Botanical Garden at Berkeley, CA

Gardens are not made .....

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

The Wave Garden, Richmond Point, CA

There are always flowers .....

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henry Matisse

The Kampong, Coconut Grove, FL

Every garden maker should be an artist ...

Every garden maker should be an artist along his own lines. That's the

only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

Vita Sackville-West

Beth Chatto Garden, Essex, UK

A garden is evidence of faith ....

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures

of the past who also planted and were nourished by the

fruits of their planting.

Gladys Taber

Town Place, Sussex (Open under NGS)

A garden is never as good ....

A garden is never as good as it will be next year.

Thomas Cooper

Viscaya, FL, USA

.... flowers at his feet

Stretching out his hand to catch the stars, he forgets

the flowers at his feet.

Jeremy Bentham

Roy Strong lecture at Hestercombe - don't miss it!

A special entry today because Roy Strong is giving a lecture at

Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset

A hedge between keeps friendships green

A hedge between keeps friendships green.

German Proverb

Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury, Wilts