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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.

— Gertrude Jekyll Colour in the Garden (1908)

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The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

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)

I rejoice when I see any one, and especially children, inquiring about flowers, and wanting gardens of their own, and carefully working in them. For the love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, once sown never dies, but always grows and grows to an enduring and ever-increasing source of happiness.

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