“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”
“I love being in my garden. I don’t plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. ”
Serenity has to be three-quarters hard work to be worth having.
You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.
“The more I garden the less I know, but the more pleasure I get from it.”
“One who plants a garden plants happiness.”
”The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”
”She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. ”
“Anyone who has time for drama is not gardening enough.”
“If you think one day you will get it all done, and then you can relax, you are bound to be disappointed.”
“A flower is not a flower alone; A thousand thoughts invest it”
“The Peace Rose is the most famous and popular Rose of all time”
“I am the lover’s gift; I am the wedding wreath..
“Autumn paints in colours that summer has never seen”.
Bountiful blooms even without a green thumb!
Keep calm and garden on…
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date”
The Tea Garden
There are no right ways to make a garden -only alternatives.
“Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.”
“If it’s hot, it’s hot. If it’s dry, it’s dry. If it’s raining, it’s good.”
“I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums”.
Gardens Of the Architect
“One Rose is Enough for the Dawn.”
“When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ”
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller”.
Then Spring Came
Modern Roses
The Perfumed Garden
Colour my World
La Rosa Paul Cezanne
“Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”
“At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.”
“I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. ”
Who killed the Lady of Shalott?
When I first began with roses, moving into that vast territory of scent, form and colour. I knew nothing.
The Joy of a Well Designed Garden
“Life is itself a school, and nature always a fresh study.”
Gardens Of the Architect
“To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow”
“In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”
Spring, Roses and Dust
Delbard Painters Collection
The Name of a Rose
