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My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely for its astonishing ruby-red shark's fin thorns that are at their lapidary best in early summer, especially when backlit by a low setting sun.
Quote by -Monty Don
Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost.
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Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.
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I do wear gloves for things that sting a lot or prick a lot. But I just like to feel with my hands. I find gloves cumbersome and uncomfortable and I've got tough old hands so the old cut doesn't matter.
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My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.
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The key to our oldest woodland is that it has been cut down and regrown, in some cases as often as 50 or 60 times. It is one of the most perfectly sustainable resources and ecosystems known to man.
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The farm uses up a lot of my creative urges. It's a sort of rough and ready space, I don't film there.
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I loathe nowheres - airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift, floating around.
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It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how we garden and hardly at all on why we garden.
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I feel ashamed if my hands are too clean and untouched. It's a measure of how much time I've spent travelling and poncing around.
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The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.
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When our jewellery business went into receivership we avoided bankruptcy by selling our houses and possessions.
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Visiting gardens is bad for you. Not only does it encourage too much eating of cake but sets up all kinds of false notions that are ruinous to your garden back home.
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I think we put far too much interest in trying to get ten to 20 year olds interested in gardening. I think you should do everything you can to try and get them interested up to the age of 10.
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When you're 15 whatever your parents tell you you should do, you're not going to do it.
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A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it gives the writer the privilege of continuing a running conversation with them.
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A weekly column is not always a treat. It can be a tyranny. There are times when I have very little to say. There are times, every year, when I am weighed down with depression. At these times it takes days of slog to force the words on to the page.
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I myself did not officially become organic until 1997, although I was always hopeless at using chemicals.
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The horticultural industry is unimaginative and dominated by vast, supermarket-like outlets. But the small nurseries and growers remain - praise them with your wallets, not your memories.
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Four out of the five discs in my lumbar spine are ruptured, herniated fully. Think of a jelly doughnut being squashed, and it hits nerves, causing bilateral sciatica. And I have irreparable sacral damage. And I have peripheral neuropathy.
Quote by -Nadya Suleman
With children, I feel so safe in my predictable world. They will never leave me.
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I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.
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I'm disgusted by babies, and I'm so sorry, I'm just being honest. They make me sick.
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I've got good genes, and my body just always seems to bounce back after my pregnancies.
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The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.
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I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I'm not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family.
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Some of the things I have done... of course I'm ashamed of in the past... was just to put food on the table and just take care of my family.
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I've always engaged in open, honest communication. There's no topic that can't be discussed.
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