Gertrude Jekyll Quotes About Gardening

• A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

• The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Garden, Jekyll

• The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Giving, Wish

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

• A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Teacher, Garden

• The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Giving, Gardening, Endure

  Jekyll, Gertrude (2016). “Wood and Garden - Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

• There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Beauty, Garden, Giving

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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