James A. Chatfield, Ohio State University Extension, Northeast District/Horticulture and Crop Science; Nancy A. Taylor, Plant Pathology, C. Wayne Ellett Plant and Pest Diagnostic Clinic, Ohio State University; Erik A. Draper, Ohio State University Extension, Geauga County; and Joseph F. Boggs, Ohio State University Extension, Hamilton County/Southwest District.
Finally, lets close with some of the best BYGLosophys from this past year's Buckeye Yard and Garden Line newsletter.
| Earth laughs in flowers. |
| —Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers, and not pick one! |
| —Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. |
| —John Steinbeck |
| Mulch shredded magazine and newspaper gardening columns filled with tips that didn't work, placed around the base of plants to retain moisture. |
| —Anonymous |
| It seemed to my friend that the creation of a landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the most magnificent of opportunities. Here indeed was the fairest field for the display of the imagination, in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty. |
| —Edgar Allen Poe |
| Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul. |
| —Luther Burbank |
| Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden...It is sad that nature will play such tricks with us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, tricking us to the heart. |
| —Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. |
| —Cicero |
| The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. |
| —Patrick Young |
| My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws. |
| —Claude Monet |
| They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains. |
| —Dianne Benson |
| Insects won't inherit the earth they own it now. |
| —Thomas Eisner |
| A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. |
| —James Dent |
| In nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read. |
| —William Shakespeare |
| The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies. |
| —Gertrude Jekyll |
| All gardeners know better than other gardeners. |
| —Chinese Proverb |
| A flower is an educated weed. |
| —Luther Burbank |
| How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. |
| —Benjamin Disraeli |
| Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. |
| —Henry David Thoreau |
| I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. |
| —Thomas Jefferson |
| Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. |
| —Albert Camus |