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Add your garden sayings...

"One years seeding,
 Seven years weeding"

Quote from: David Pilling on August 04, 2024, 04:05:07 PMAdd your garden sayings...

"One years seeding,
 Seven years weeding"

"Sow dry,
Set wet."

Mark Mazer
Hertford, NC
USA

I have a collection from many years.  A few favorites are:

     Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.

     If we persist, I do not doubt that by age 96 or so we will have a garden we are pleased with, more or less.

     The gardener doesn't make the garden; the garden makes the gardener.

Sylvia Sykora
Oakland, CA USA  - where Fog-ust is here in earnest, fog dripping like rain from the tall trees

Quote from: MarkMazer on August 05, 2024, 06:57:08 AM"Sow dry,
Set wet."

"sow dry and set wet proverbial saying for gardeners, mid 17th century, meaning that seeds should be sown in dry ground and then given water; the idea that seeds sown in wet ground will not prosper is expressed in Thomas Tusser's Husbandry (revised edition, 1580), as 'By sowing in wet, Is little to get."

Thanks David. Now do:

 "The First Year, Plants Sleep, Second Year, They Creep & Third Year, They Leap"

Mark Mazer
Hertford, NC
USA

Quote from: MarkMazer on August 05, 2024, 07:30:59 AM"The First Year, Plants Sleep, Second Year, They Creep & Third Year, They Leap"

"Unfortunately, the exact origin of this gardening adage is difficult to pinpoint.

It's a saying that has been passed down through generations of gardeners, becoming a part of horticultural folklore. While it's a helpful guideline for understanding plant growth cycles, it's important to note that it's a generalization and might not apply to all plants or conditions.

Many gardening books and websites reference this phrase, but they rarely attribute it to a specific author or source. It's likely that it emerged from the collective wisdom of countless gardeners over time."

"It will look better with plants on it."
Specifically, in regard to rock gardens, particularly the currently faddish crevice gardens.

A weed is a plant in the wrong place.

There ought to be a saying somewhere about how sowing seed of some species - garden iris and parsley come to mind in particular - is a fool's errand when you just have to let them self-seed and have them germinate randomly for the next 10-20 years.

About self setters:

"Let plants volunteer for duty by letting them go to seed"

Hmm.

35 inspirational gardening quotes and famous proverbs

https://www.daviddomoney.com/35-inspirational-gardening-quotes-and-famous-proverbs/

42 Garden Quotes To Inspire You All Year Long

https://www.southernliving.com/garden/garden-quotes


Garden quotes and sayings

https://thefabulousgarden.com/blog/2018/01/11/garden-quotes-and-sayings/



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(and I didn't know such things existed when I started this thread).