Quote#Nature
To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems…
Quote byGertrude Jekyll · 1843–1932
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Colour in the Garden (1908).
English (original)
To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me to be the best thing to do in gardening.
— Gertrude Jekyll
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