There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. – Hal Borland (1900–1978)

The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part ploughman. – John R. Whiting

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. – Author Unknown

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. – Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666