>> Yes, I live in a dream world and have imaginary helpers.
Me, too! That volunteer army with their own wheelbarrows ...
... they always know exactly what I want done ...
... never complain, cheerfully unpaid ...
... don't mind working in cold drizzle or fog ...
On the other hand:
The more help a man has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
- William M. Davies
Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
- Lou Erickson
Man was not made to rust out in idleness. A degree of exercise is as necessary for the preservation of health, both of body and mind, as his daily food.
And what exercise is more fitting, or more appropriate of one who is in the decline of life, than that of superintending a well-ordered garden?
What more enlivens the sinking mind? What is more conducive to a long life?
- Joseph Breck
Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done
the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.
- Jerry Baker
"A garden is better than a mirror for revealing yourself."
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"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."
- Phillip's Rule
"I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself."
- Smither's Brown Thumb Dictum
