There is no rule that all of the elements of a border must be equally visible at one time. In fact, borders seen straight on, from a vantage point extending from the center, are often the least successful. If you can see everything as well from a distance, why bother to get closer?
Frederick Mcgourty
- The perennial Gardener (1989)
Jag vill bli trädgårdsmästare,
jag vill ha hans ansikte som
genom årtionden fårats av
väder, hans visdom och lugn
när han med stora, varsamma
händer sår ett frö i taget, ett
litet vallmofrö i varje kruka.
Hans tålmodighet och kunskap
om hur en morot vill möta världen, känna hans tillbakahållna glädje när vallmon öppnar sitt
hjärta för första gången.
Hannu Sarenström
- Trädgårdsmagi (2003)
I always think it desirable to group together flowers that bloom at the same time. It is impossible, and even undesirable, to have a garden in blossom all over, and groups of flower-beauty are all the more enjoyable for being more or less isolated by stretches of intervening greenery.
Gertrude Jekyll
- Wood and Garden (1899)
26 juni
Den sena kvällen är så ljus att jag inte får någon ro. Går ut och blir nästan yr av doften från den nyutslagna schersminen. Ljudlöst smyger jag omkring på den tjocka nyklippta gräsmattan som sviktar under mina fötter. I pionrabatten har den första rosa pionen slagit ut bredvid daggkåpans limgröna blommor. Det finns massor av vita pioner, men det är den enda rosa som får bli kvällens trofé, när jag som en tjuv i min egen trädgård samlar ihop till min nattliga bukett.
Denise Grünstein
- 59 Buketter från min trädgård och lite till (2007)
(The gardener) cannot change colours by mixing pigments as the painter does, but like the painter he vill affect the appearance of a collar by where he places it. No color is seen in isolation; each is perceived in relation to some other color or colors and is constantly modified not only by its neighbours but by all colors immediately visible at a glance, and by this which were seen a moment before.
Penelope Hobhouse
- Color in your garden (1985)
I have learnt that gardens are like happiness. You cannot pursue it/them as an absolute thing or a moment. You take and make them as they come, and every now and then there are fleeting glimpses that justify everything else - Vaughans's 'press into glory'- although at this time of year the opportunities for peeping are greater than ever and the glory all around. I had an email last year from a gardener wanting to know how to get rid of the cow parsley that was invading her borders. I wrote back that I longed for that kind of invasive gift. Well, I have it now as the cow parsley spreads through the spring garden, muscling aside almost everything else. But a garden consisting only of cow parsley and hawthorn blossom would be glory enough for me.
Monty Don
- The Ivington Diaries (2009)
I alldeles för få trädgårdar utnyttjas de egentligen oumbärliga marktäckande växterna. Mörk, frodig murgröna i dunklet. Blank, rundbladig hasselört under träden. Tät Vinca minor med oskuldsfulla, himmelsblå blommor. En doftande matta av violer. Täta bestånd av liljekonvalj. Myskmadra, lungört, ormöga... många är de marktäckare som trivs i skuggan. Sviktande, småblommig backtimjan i solgasset. Silvrig kattfot. Stryktålig taggpimpinell och trampnarv. Det finns marktäckare för varje läge.
Christel Kvant & Heidi Palmgren
- Trädgårdens rum (1999)
What is the secret of the cottage garden's charm? Cottage gardeners are good to their plots, and in the course of years they make them fertile, and the shelter of the little house and hedge makes them fertile. But there is something more and it is the absence of any pretentious 'plan' which lets the flowers tell their story to the heart. The walks are only what are needed, and so we see only the earth and its blossom.
William Robinson
- The English flower garden (1883)
