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Quotes from Colour in the Garden — Gertrude Jekyll

1843–1932 England

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I am strongly of the opinion that possession of plants, however good, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection.

Colour in the Garden (1908)

To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me to be the best thing to do in gardening.

Colour in the Garden (1908)

The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes.

Colour in the Garden (1908)

Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and refreshment of mind and body. This sense of beauty is a gift of God.

Colour in the Garden (1908)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gertrude Jekyll (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.