I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

If you build up the soil with organic material the plants will do just fine.

Working with plants trees fences and walls if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Use plants to bring life.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with somehow.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience for novelty or for nostalgia but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.