Poppies

“Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.” 

~John Keats~

Roses

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.” 

~Anne Bronte~

Mother Goose Picture Book

“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”

~Elizabeth Lawrence~

Buttercup

"Against her ankles as she trod, the lucky buttercups did nod."

~Jean Ingelow~

Floral Beauty

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” 

~William Shakespeare~

Spring

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...” 

~The Secret Garden~

~Spring has Sprung~

~"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."~

-- Claude Monet--

Spring has Sprung

~Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.~

~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Pink Roses

~A single rose can be my garden, a single friend my world~
Leo Buscaglia

Flower Basket

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock."

~HENRY WARD BEECHER~

"Children reinvent your world for you".
~Anonymous~

Garden seeds

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies.
~Gertrude Jekyll~

Botanical Garden

I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose, The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs like a bashful maid her head.
~Phoebe Cary~

Friendship Flowers

In friendship's fragrant garden,
There are flowers of every hue.
Each with its own fair beauty
And its gift of joy for you.
~Anonymous~

Pink Perfection

"The very Pink of Perfection"
~Oliver Goldsmith~

Summer Flowers

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed
~Walt Whitman~

Friendship

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.
~ Richard Bach ~

Rose is a rose...

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without a scent.
~Proverbs~

Flowers

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
~Gerald De Nerval~

Garden

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." ~ Aristotle ~