But there is one place where ...

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.
 Allen Lacy

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All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
 Allen Lacy
Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.
 Allen Lacy
The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them - who planned and planted and replanned and replanted them, who dug in the dirt and moved hoses and watched the gardens change with the cycle of the seasons and over the passage of years.
 Allen Lacy
Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.
 Allen Lacy