Gertrude Jekyll famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Patience #Teacher #Educational
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Love #Garden #Gardening
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Summer #Time #Spring
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Garden #Gains #Kind
I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Wall #Garden #Hands
There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Respect #Garden #Hands
If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Flower #Good Friend #Smell
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Garden #Giving #Wish
A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Trust #Teacher #Garden
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

#Men #Trying #Digging
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Love #Encouragement #Exercise
It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Time #Taken #Half
To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Flower #Mean #Garden
I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Garden #Clothes #Envy
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Garden #Giving #Delight
The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.
-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Giving #Gardening #Endure

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