GardenTalk

Anne Morrow Lindbergh on White Dogwood

"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Dr. Ivy

"I am Nature's arm. Her spirit. Her will. Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours! 'cause it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature."
--- from Wikiquotes, Batman & Robin

When spirits soar

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
--Helen Hayes

November

November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.

With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.

The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.
-  Clyde Watson

Compost heap

However small your garden, you must provide for two of the
serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap.
A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by
shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves
and clippings, but try not to fall into it.
-   Anne Scott-James, Down to Earth