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

— 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)

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)

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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