There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for; gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up. Thomas Jefferson said once, "Though an old man, I am but a young gardener"."
- Allan Armitage
The last of the perennials in my garden, the Coneflowers, have withered away, but I'm already looking forward to seeing them again next year.
I've loved gardening for years but never knew that it was helping me stay young!
Well - that makes me feel better about all the pruning and weeding that I have been doing over the past couple of weeks - gives me incentive now! Love that flowers still have a beauty even after they have died off!!
Fabulous quote....how true! And a perfectly lovely shot of the dried flowers. Seems like lately I'm pruning and weeding more than anything else....would like to be planting more ;-)
