Eleanor Perenyi Quotes

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September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.

Eleanor Perenyi

To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

Eleanor Perenyi

It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong?

Eleanor Perenyi

Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue.

Eleanor Perenyi

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.

Eleanor Perenyi

Eleanor Perenyi

Eleanor Perenyi

Born: January 4, 1918

Died: May 3, 2009 (aged 91)

Bio: Eleanor Perenyi was a gardener and author on gardening. She wrote Green Thoughts, a collection of essays based on her own experiences as a gardener. The book drew on her work on her husband’s castle.

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