A new Year and a new beginning!

Happy New Year to all of those who followed me in 2010.

I hope you have a wonderful year and will join me on my new blog

Jardins sans Frontiers

which will follow our garden in Rajasthan, India

Back to my other blog ...

I'm taking a rest from this blog as I'm leaving for India, but you can always catch up with me on:

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 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

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