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Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.

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Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.

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You mustn't rely on your flowers to make your garden attractive. A good bone structure must come first, with an intelligent use of evergreen plants so that the garden is always clothed, no matter what time of year. Flowers are an added delight, but a good garden is the garden you enjoy looking at even in the depths of winter.

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The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character.

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I have never regretted our foolhardiness. Of course, we made mistakes, endless mistakes, but at least they were our own, just as the garden was our own.

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Margery Fish

Margery Fish

Born: August 5, 1892
Died: March 24, 1969 (aged 76)
Bio: Margery Fish was an English gardener and gardening writer, who exercised a strong influence on the informal cottage garden style. The garden she created has Grade I listed status.
Known for:
  1. We Made a Garden (1956)
  2. Cottage Garden Flowers (1961)
  3. A flower for every day (1965)
  4. Gardening in the Shade (1964)
  5. Carefree Gardening (1966)

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