There is no 'The End' to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished a painter can frame his picture, a composer notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.
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Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. ... I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.Mirabel Osler
To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way we can now stand beside ours.
Mirabel Osler
Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.
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There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
Mirabel Osler
As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.
Mirabel Osler
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