FOR THE LOVE OF ROSES (FOOD FOR THE SOUL) ~ 'PORTRAIT OF A ROSE'

"Every rose is an autograph from the hand of God on his world about us. He has inscribed his thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have, these many thousand years, been seeking to understand."

~ Theodore Parker

Treasured 1st Edition

"Oh, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That ’s newly sprung in June;

Oh, my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune."

~ Robert Burns

'Carefree Beauty' Shrub Rose

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"The rose speaks of love silently,

in a language known only to the heart."

~ unknown

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet."

~ William Shakespeare

"The rose speaks of love silently,

in a language known only to the heart."

~ unknown

"When love first came to Earth,

the Spring spread rose-beds to receive him."

~ Thomas Campbell

"Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.

For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed."

~ William Shakespeare

"Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again."

~ unknown

"If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is."

~ J. B. Yeats

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

'AS THE GARDEN GROWS' ~ MID-JUNE STROLL

"Garden making is creative work, just as much as painting or writing a poem. It is a personal expression of self, and individual conception of beauty. I should as soon think of asking a secretary to write my book, or the cook to assist in a water color painting, as to permit a gardener to plant or dig among my flowers."

~ Hannah Rion

(The Greatest Gift of a Garden)

"Gardener's work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection: no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better or give it a better neighbour. To other's eyes, all may look as well as could be expected, but a good gardener's eye sees more to be improved."

~ Robin Lane Fox