Smelling Quotes For Gardeners Smelling The Scents, Smells, Fragrances, and Odors in the Garden Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo From the Spirit of Gardening Website Of all the ingredients we employ in the creation of a garden, scent is probably the most potent and the least understood. 1991 Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume. The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall. A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining.