Eleanor Perenyi Quotes

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.

To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.