June 25th, 2026

Getting Started

“Plant it with the green side up.”

Mary Ann & Frederick McGourty (Gardeners; June 15th, 1959 to May 12th, 2003 & October 26th, 1936 to April 27th, 2006)

“Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant…”

Barbara Damrosch (Writer & Horticulturist; 1942)

“E.B. White, who after his wife Katharine’s death edited her New Yorker gardening columns into a book, ends his remembrance of her gardening years with a glimpse of her last autumn bulb planting and ‘her studied absorption in the implausible notion that there would be yet another spring, oblivious to the ending of her own days, which she knew perfectly well was at hand, sitting there with her detailed chart under those dark skies in the dying October, calmly plotting the resurrection.'”

“…I asked a gardener his secret for abundant blooming. He told me to plant at least six bulbs in each hole (Create a circle of bulbs in the hole with one bulb in the center) and space your holes close together. The result was stunning.”

“Let no one be discouraged by the thought of how much there is to learn. …Each new step becomes a little surer, and each new grasp a little firmer.”

Gertrude Jeykill (British Horticulturist & Garden Designer; November 29th, 1843 to December 8th, 1932)

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–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 225 to 227 of 501.

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