Gift Ideas for Gardeners

Quotes are great for inspiration, so whether you're looking for something to add into the birthday card of that special someone or a quote to hang on your wall or crochet into a pillow, you're in the right place!

"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt."
Unknown

"I'm not really a career person. I'm a gardener, basically."
George Harrison

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
Abraham Lincoln

"Earth laughs in flower."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."
Hanna Rion

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
Margaret Atwood

"Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration."
Lou Erickson

"Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God."
Thomas Jefferson

"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."
Janet Kilburn Philips

"I perhaps owe becoming a painter to flowers."
Claude Monet

"All gardening is landscape painting."
Alexander Pope

"Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise."
Henry Mitchell

"Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees."
Anne Raver

"Flowers are my music."
Sir Thomas Arnold

"God made rainy days, so gardeners could get housework done."
Unknown

"As the garden grows, so does the gardener."
Unknown

"Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand."
Mother Theresa

"The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow."
Unknown

"Where you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul."
Spencer W. Kimball

"All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so."
Joseph Joubert

"Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow."
Unknown

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
John Keats

"When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden."
Minnie Aumonier

"All my hurts my garden spade can heal."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes the tiniest flowers smell the sweetest."
Emilie Barnes

"I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life."
Cicero

"At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous."
Mirabel Osler

"Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years."
Unknown

"He who plants a garden plants happiness."
Chinese Proverb