Washington Gardener Magazine is the award-winning publication for Mid-Atlantic USA gardeners by local gardeners.
“Faced with planetary crisis ... What difference can an individual make in the face of such vast and seemingly insurmountable problems? The answer, as gardeners around the globe are discovering, is to create a little patch of hope in your own backyard.” ~ Isabella Tree
“Sometimes I forget the garden is me — wild, tender, unruly, and always capable of blooming again.”
~ K.L. Ember
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, / And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, / And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, / And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven.” ~ Walt Whitman
"I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down / into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, / how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, / … / Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
“Sometimes all it takes is a single blossom.” ~ Jane Fulton Alt
“It was June, and the world smelled like roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold all over the grassy hillside.” ~ Maud Hart Lovelace
"The pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing." ~ George Orwell
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"Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring." ~ Lilly Pulitzer
"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older."
~ Virginia Woolf
"One must be as willing to study as to dig, for a knowledge of plants is acquired as much from books as from experience." ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
~ Lao Tzu
"Every child needs to learn how to cook, learn how to cultivate a garden and plant seeds, learn about sustainability, be taken to a garden and be able to put their hands in the earth."
~ Alice Waters
"He plants trees to benefit another generation." ~ Caecilius Statius
“The beauty of the garden flows into your dreams and psyche. Your eyes, now accustomed to noticing the smallest bit of earth awakening in early spring, can spot the impossibility of a buttercup emerging from a crumbling bit of pavement."
~ Elizabeth Brown
"It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love. " ~ Lou Rawls
"A garden can be a single bloom in a pot, a houseplant, or an herb on a kitchen windowsill -- just a bit of green that pulls you from your busy mind, and back to earth."
~ Elizabeth Brown
"The orchid is the flower of love, and it brings beauty and harmony to any setting."
~ Maya Angelou
"Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty."
~ William Shakespeare
"It’s not just the seeds. It’s the stories and places that they come from."
~ Ira Wallace
"One thing about coming into the greenhouse every day, you see something that you didn’t see yesterday."
~ John Hope Franklin
The holiday season is here and I bet you have a gardener on your gift list, so we've updated our annual a Holiday Gifts for Gardener...
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