Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one … - Henry Mitchell

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I keep going till that pain says hello to me. I don't say goodbye until that pain says hello. That's a good set.

Henry Mitchell

Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.

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By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

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