The difference between a good garden and bad garden is a fortnight.

We have descended into the garden and caught 300 slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

A rule to remember when dealing with garden pests: if it is slow-moving stamp on it; if it is fast-moving leave it alone - it will probably kill something else.

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.