Gardening always has been an art, essentially.
When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It’s uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It’s trial and error, really. If something doesn’t work, it comes out, and you start all over again.
I’m really into gardening.
I’m mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.
Software is like gardening – one day I’ll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?
Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it’s appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.
I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I’m doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.
Mid-afternoon, I’ll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.
I think in the same way when I’m cooking, when I’m gardening, when I’m choosing fabrics. It’s a way of living.
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.
I’ve always loved the woods, and I’ve always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.
I like gardening.
I like to keep fit, and when not gardening or singing solo or in a choir, I cycle, play tennis, swim, dance, and practise yoga.
Gardening is one of my enduring, favourite, and most rewarding pastimes.
I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I’m not writing songs or gardening, I’m painting.
I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.
Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England – a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.
We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates high levels of well-being. That is undeniable and needs little measurement.
My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable – it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.
I don’t think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family and my home, and to them I’m not the Colin Firth of anything.
We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.
There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well – that’s anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.
I think that’s my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I’ve read about it, I’ve written about it, I’ve done it all my life but at heart, I’m just a passionate amateur gardener.
