In the last two or three years almost 100% of the gardens we've eradicated are Mexican drug cartel gardens, ... It's alarming if you think about it.

If the model is River Gardens, it has failed miserably.

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime