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Margery Fish (née Townshend) (5 August 1892 – 24 March 1969) was an English gardener and gardening writer, who exercised a strong influence on the informal cottage garden style. The garden she created, at East Lambrook Manor, has Grade I listed status.

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Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.

Baby, Important, Gardening, Like, Amateur, Aspects

It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure.

Perfect, Plant, Special, Surprise, Treasure

I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.

Cousin, Husband, Garden, Gardeners, Applies

you mustn't rely on your flowers to make your garden attractive. A good bone structure must come first, with an intelligent use of evergreen plants so that the garden is always clothed, no matter what time of year. Flowers are an added delight, but a good garden is the garden you enjoy looking at even in the depths of winter.

Flower, Winter, Garden, Depths, Looking, Clothed

I have never regretted our foolhardiness. Of course, we made mistakes, endless mistakes, but at least they were our own, just as the garden was our own.

Course, Foolhardiness, Garden, Mistake, Never Regret

One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people's gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration - new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year.

Arrangement, Flower, Fresh, Friendship, Inspiration, Know

Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.

Weed, Garden, Afternoon, Seeds, Make, Life

The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character. ' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character.

Character, Thinking, Wind, Perhaps, Think

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