Quotes by Janet Macunovich - Page 1

Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!
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Lasts
Trying
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Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.
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Growing
Thrive
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There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.
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Garden
Suits
Way
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I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots.
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Boots
Spades
Use
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You don't know the plant until you've killed it. Then you've learned something.
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Plant
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The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.
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Garden
Plant
Spots
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You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.
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Eye
Garden
Landscape
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Low care is what we do while on our knees. Smart care is what makes the growing easier.
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Care
Growing
Smart
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Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.
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Apology
Firsts
Why Not
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Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.
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Design
Window
Yards
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There are far too many self esteem problems in the world as it is. No sense taking on plant guilt, too.
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Guilt
Self Esteem
World
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Watch out for trees and traffic. The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other.
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Impact
Mistake
Tree
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If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.
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Garden
Hands
Watches
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If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.
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Cutting
Plant
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Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.
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Essentials
Focus
Missing
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If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!
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Bigs
Cutting
Should
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Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.
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Garden
Long
Real
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A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall.
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Doe
Fall
Tools
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Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread.
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Fall
Garden
Tree
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We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we kill it.
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Growing
Plant
Thinking
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The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.
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Adults
Baby
Killers
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Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.
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Opportunity
Morning
Summer
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We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.
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Causes
Names
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When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's also much easier to do that before they come up and begin to talk to us.
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Easier
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Winter
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Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.
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Benches
Doe
Silly
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I have heard people say, "I garden in lieu of therapy, but therapy would be cheaper." I believe gardening's worth the price since it's at least as effective in curing head and heart of what ails us.
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Believe
Garden
Heart
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History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.
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Gardening
Mystery
Weather
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Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents... you name it. Treat all plants with respect!
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Cells
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Names
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