Planting Flowers Quotes

“There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Maybe Sina could plant some flowers? Ginger flowers and yellow allamanda. Bird-of-paradise flower. Delicate frangipani.”
― Anne Østby, Pieces of Happiness

“I want to make a heart in red flowers with blue flowers around it."
"Okeydokey. So, let's look for red flowers and blue flowers."
We flipped, she picked blue violas ("painted porcelain" they were called, a pale blue with darker blue edges, very pretty,) and something called a "chocolate cosmos," which was more burgundy than red, but still, it's her garden.
"Are they actually chocolate?" asked Clare, who had come back for a snack for herself and a rawhide chewy for Frank.
"No, but it says here that they smell of chocolate."
"Hmm." She'd fallen for that one before.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings

“Jane decides that she'll stay silent until Rose talks, but after ninety seconds of chewing her tuna, she can't handle it and she starts to tell Rose how she started reading the Little House books to Lauren, how Lauren has become obsessed with Laura Ingalls Wilder and the idea of being a pioneer, how she talks about eating fried pig's tails and maple syrup snow. Rose sips her iced tea but doesn't respond and so Jane tells her about the new flowers she's planning to plant in her garden in the spring. A plant that smells like lemon when the leaves rustle. Another that grows flowers that look like candy corn!”
― Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups