“For gardeners, this is the season of lists and callow hopefulness; hundreds of thousands of bewitched readers are poring over their catalogues, making lists for their seed and plant orders, and dreaming their dreams.”
Katharine S. White
more infosource: “A Romp in the Catalogues,” March 1, 1958 in Onward and Upward in the Garden (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002), 3.
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category: garden, list, seed, spring
medium: Magazine article
“It’s good having friends who farm. It’s good to know the names of their cows and the calves that come in the spring. It’s fun to see the new ones when I head up to get eggs from my neighbor. It’s good knowing they would be here in a minute for us anytime day or night, and it’s good knowing they can count on us the same way. We have a 1958 Ford tractor that I love. We have silos and a barn that has been here 100 years. The original house burned down years before we got here. Our house is a little tract house—nothing much at all. But we put on a tin roof and a covered porch and built a masonry bread oven. We have a big garden—man, I’m starting to cry here. It’s not the prettiest farm at all, but it’s the best place I’ve ever lived in my life.”
Lynda Barry
more infosource: Vice interview by Amy Kellner
category: community, cow, farm, friendship, garden, home, tractor
medium: Interview
“Ordering seeds is my reward for finishing the income-tax figures.”
May Sarton
more infosource: Journal of a Solitude (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1973), 84.
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category: garden, reward, seed, taxes
medium: Journal
“In my garden everything grows on top of everything else, and I let them fight it out.”
Elizabeth Lawrence
more infosource: May 1959 letter to Katharine S. White, in Two Gardeners: A Friendship in Letters (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002), 29.
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category: garden, nature, plant
medium: Letter
“My flowers are near and foreign, and I have but to cross the floor to stand in the Spice Isles.”
Emily Dickinson
more infosource: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 449.
category: flower, garden, nature
medium: letter
notes: letter to Mrs. J. G. Holland, early March 1866
“My garden is all covered up by snow; picked gilliflower Tuesday, now gilliflowers are asleep. The hills take off their purple frocks, and dress in long white nightgowns.”
Emily Dickinson
more infosource: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 228.
category: color, garden, nature, purple, snow, white, winter
medium: letter
notes: letter to Louise Norcross, Dickinson's first cousin, December 1860?
“I was a tiny child—really tiny—and I loved tiny things. Seeds are a really powerful tiny thing.”
Ken Greene
more infosource: “A Seed Library for Heirloom Plants Thrives in the Hudson Valley,” by Joy Y. Wang, The New York Times, October 6, 2010.
category: child, garden, nature, powerful, seed, size, small, tiny
medium: newspaper article
“The gardens [in Japan] are works of art in design, planting and miniaturization. The Japanese favor green gardens, not flowers which die, but evergreens, carpets of moss. Always, the accompaniment of water from a stream directed to fall drop by drop from a bamboo pipe. Each time it stops to allow the water to accumulate, it makes a sound like one dry slap on a drum.”
Anaïs Nin
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