BN FAVE: THESE GORGEOUS GARDENS WILL INSPIRE YOU NOW

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

-- Helen Keller

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

-- Maya Angelou

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

-- Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

-- Peter Mayle

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

-- Rumi

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

-- C. Z. Guest

I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.

-- Carolina Herrera

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

-- Robert Bridges

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

-- Jamaica Kincaid

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

-- Miranda Richardson

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by ukgardenphotos. Mottisfont Abbey Rose Gardens, Hampshire. Hampshire, United Kingdom.
2. Image: by JR P. Private Garden in Perkins Cove, Maine.
3. Image: by WisDoc. Butchart Gardens Fairytale. Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
4. Image: by ukgardenphotos. Leonardslee Gardens. West Sussex, England.
5. Image: by Rachel Kramer. Tulips at the Children's Garden at Frederik Meijer Gardens. Grand Rapids, Michigan.
6. Image: by Amanda Slater. Broughton Grange Garden Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire, England.
7. Image: by Joe Pitha. Garden Door. Monet's Garden. Giverny, France.
8. Image: by Michael Foley. National Botanic Gardens Dublin. Tulips from Amsterdam - Gift of the Dutch Embassy. Dublin, Ireland.
9. Image: by ukgardenphotos. English Herbaceous Borders. Nymans Garden, West Sussex, England.
10. Image: by ukgardenphotos. Water in English Gardens. Stream-side Planting in Trebah Gardens, Cornwall, England.
11. Image: by JR P. The Japanese Moss Garden at the 2007 Chelsea Flower Show. London, England.
12. Image: by ukgardenphotos. Waddesdon Manor Gardens, Buckinghamshire, England. Red Salvias and Marigolds used as bedding plants.
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by Karen Roe. Sandringham. The Norfolk Retreat of HM The Queen. Sandringham, England.