Gertrude Jekyll

To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me to be the best thing to do in gardening.

Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and refreshment of mind and body. This sense …

The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes.

I am strongly of the opinion that possession of plants, however good, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection.