Category: gardening...

gardening as an art (arranging plants harmoniously) and a science (principles and techniques of cultivation)
the garden as a spot of beauty, repose, and seclusion and the feeling of relaxation, anticipation, and contentment gained from the work involved
vegetable crops are more successful when they are rotated every three years
the raked sand or gravel of a Zen garden, a place for meditation
specimen plants cultivated in a botanical garden
Chinese gardens harmonized with the natural landscape, using rocks gathered from great distances
Gardening...tutors us in nature's ways, fostering an ethic of give and take with respect to the land... The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. (M. Pollin)
We must cultivate our garden. (H. Walpole)
When I go into my garden with a spade and dig a bed, I feel such exhilaration and health. (RW Emerson)