I have avoided dealing with some pressing but boring tasks today by reading some amusing quotations about gardens and gardening. Here are some you may enjoy.
An unknown writer wrote: "I used to love my garden, but now my love is dead, for I found a bachelor's button in a black-eyed Susan's bed."
Emily Whaley wrote, "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and fertilize."
I especially identified with Katherine Whitehorn who wrote, "Perennials are the ones that spread like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next, and hardy annuals are the ones that never grow at all."
Countess Russell said something that seemed unusual for a countess: "The longer I live, the greater is my respect and affection for manure in all of its forms."
The countess also wrote, "If Eve had had a spade in paradise, and known what to do with it, we should not have had all of that sad business with the apple."
Barbara Spindel wrote recently, "Gardens have been sites of transgression ever since Eve and the serpent."
And on a more cheerful note, in 1672 Anne Bradstreet wrote, "If we had no winter, spring would not be so wonderful."
This is Moya Andrews and today we focused on amusing quotations.
