Summer - the most beautiful time of the year!!! Wait a minute... there is spring, also so very, very beautiful and fall, wow, you can't leave out fall, think of THOSE colors! and winter too, beautiful in its own way...

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. " John Ruskin, British writer, art critic (born 2/8/1819)

'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things. (from "The Education of a Gardener" 1962)
Russell Page, British garden designer, writer

"The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when the wind and weather and everything else are favorable, is never master of his craft."
(Henry Ellacombe, 19th century British gardener, writer)

"A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature."

Jeff Cox, American garden writer

"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth."

(John Milton, English poet (born 12/9/1608)