Jolly Gardener Gifts

'Say when.'

F&E Landscape Architects. Ground cover plants are the Peter Pan of landscape design. The never "grow up"!

"Relax. They're just crows."

Planting Joy

Gardener clipping topiary stairs

An Unexpected Guest.

"No! I want to live! I want to live!"

Planting seeds in garden - broad beans and jelly beans.

'The attendant is very good. I tip him the occasional sparrow.'

'Gosh, I dunno. You sure it's organic?'

The Phantom Of The Garden

'It says right here on the package, Ed, 'avoid any direct contact with skin'!'

"The pea's the first vegetable I've ever grown. Can you stuff and mount it for me please?"

'I'm in the amusingly shaped vegetables department.'

"There's got to be a better way to raise potatoes!"

'Ah, now's there's something different....'

'And if you squeeze snapdragons just like this, it sort of looks like they're biting something.'

I'm going for former flower children. Tree's Tree Nursery. Legal pot. Legal grass. Festuca. Carex. Miscanthus.

Planting Bird Seed.

Paving over the window-box

'I've had so many transplants, I feel like a garden nursery.'

City Zoo: 'Try our exotic composts in your garden.'

The beautiful but deadly 'Venus dog trap'.

Hydroponic Gardening

'I love crocuses. They seem to defy the winter snow to let you know spring is coming.'

Wet weather footwear - shoes that are shaped like boats.

A windfall pear falling straight into a bag of windfall pears.

"Gnomeschooling is harder than I thought!"

Sophisticated garden - low maintenance garden

"I might let the window box lay fallow, this season."

'Be sure to bring home your divots so you can patch the bare spots in our lawn.'

'What on earth made you think of growing water melons in the bath Henry?'

'Manure, you say? We always put custard on our rhubarb!'

"I stopped singing to my plants! I've never had one say 'shaddup!' before!"

'Every summer, dandelions can't wait to go topless!'