Good idea, shall we have one quote per day and once it's posted, that's our slogan for the day? I think that would be cool...sort of like dictionary.com's "word of the day."

Marsha, email me at lakini7@msn.com about the baptisia and brug. It'll be fun to work out something. I don't have your email address.

Quote for Today, September 27, 2005

"And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..."

From "Woodstock," Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Excellent quote! Daughter #2 called me a few years ago to ask me who CSN&Y were because someone had given her free tickets to see them in Boston. I nearly fell OFF my chair, thinking FREE TICKETS, CSN&Y??? So, knowing that I was in angst about it, she called me from the concert and let me hear the whole thing via cell phone. Good thing it was weekend minutes. LOL Meanwhile, now she's a big fan of them, "borrowed" all my CD's and found it hysterically funny that a "bunch of old pharts at a concert" (her words) could really rock and roll.

-Nan

we were walking in paradise
never did notice
We had been told of a place
Far beyond this vale of tears
We could never have guessed
We were already blessed
There we were, where we are
In the garden

Sorry, this is a refrain from a song but it is one of my favorites. Adele

I am verklempt, Adele!

OK, who's going to post the quote for Wed., 9-29...do I have to give homework to some of you. Marsha started this, now let's go...we need our words of wisdom for humpday.

Here is a line from "The Secret Garden" which was the first novel I ever read. It gave me my first thirst for gardening.
"If you have never had a garden you cannot understand, and if you have had a garden you will know that it would take a whole book to describe all that came to pass there." -Ais.

wonderful quote.
it's now an entry
in my garden journal :)

I love that, ais. It's so true. Gardens are very personal in many ways. You don't need a password to get into them, but your experience there is between you and nature. Other eyes looking at the same thing, do not see or feel what you do because you are both artist and constant inhabitant.

I wonder what the quotation for tomorrow will be??? Let's try to date them and then comments and reactions will follow, but there will only be one quotation per day. That's what Marsha and I think will work so well. (we are a couple of control freaks) So please be planning your little piece of wisdom for some future day.

Here's one for Thursday Sept 29:

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. ~Lou Erickson

Above:
Boy isn't that the truth!

I so agree! For me, not usually the frustration variety, just plain 'ol Carolina heat and humidity sweat! Just think if we could have little aquaducts off our bods all summer...now the Romans didn't think of that one!

Thank you, John. Does someone have our watchwords for Friday, the last day of Sept.?

Okay- here's one from Gertrude Jekyll

"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust."

i've definitely learned patience.
still working on entire trust :)
marsha

I've got the rest just about mastered, but the THRIFT seems to work the opposite here on Chirpin' Bird Hill. My garden must be the horticultural equivalent of Paris Hilton!

cracking up here @ Paris Hilton. Wouldn't you like to have the landscape budget of the Biltmore Estate to work with?

I admit, I lack the thrift and the patience. And about the only thing I trust out there is that tomorrow will bring a whole new set of tasks to deal with.

I like this one.

"Throw all preconceived notions out the window, plant wildly, laugh at the failures, and smugly savor the successes."

Dan Hinkly, "The Explorer's Garden: Rare and Unusual Plants",1999

Hey, Shari, I really needed that one with my hollyhock crisis! Thanks.

My mom gardened practically in the Atlantic Ocean on a dune. A good Nor'easter would wipe everything out, but she would always start over.

peace, claire in sanford

That's a good quote too! Here's my life application to that quote...

Throw all nursery receipts out the window, laugh wildly, plant the failures and savor the basil.

most excellent advice for a joyful gardening life.
marsha

Not as happy-go-lucky or optimisitic perhaps, but true!
"Nor do I believe what old-timey people say, that flowers grow for those who love them. On the contrary, I believe that gazing upon them too fondly and too intently is the death of many."
Elizabeth Lawrence, A Southern Garden

Killing with kindness? May be so. I know that when I want something too much and strive too hard, it fails me...e.g. lavender.

Makes me think of the "Suicidal Gardenia" thread. The most hilarious thing I've read on this site for sure. If you haven't read it- do a search of the entire forum for Gardenia and you'll probably find it.

I have to look that "suicidal gardenia" up. Great quote and boy was she ever right! I think I have killed many things by high expectations. I guess I put too much pressure on them ;) -Ais.

here it is. and it IS a laugh riot!

Here is a link that might be useful: suicidal gardenia

So, should we be passive aggressive toward these flowers we love so much? If it meant I could line my fence with gardenias or get these ES hydrandgeas to do something, I'd sign up now. Five pounds of coffee huh? I actually did put coffee grounds on some azaleas last year that hadn't bloomed in long while, and they bloomed for me.

ok, how about this garden quote (by the way, you have to sing it, same tune as the Marine's Hymn "From the Halls of Montezuma"):

From the ants in our petunia beds
to the crabgrass in our lawns,
We will fight them off with chemicals
till the bugs and weeds are gone,
We'll use quarts and quarts of poison spray
and we won't stop till we're through,
All the bugs and weeds are dying now
but the plants and trees are too.
(MAD magazine, circa 1976)

:-)
Yes, I am an organic gardener.