Bulbs bought early are best chosen.
If you wish your tulips to wake up gay,
They must all be in bed by Lord Mayor's Day.
"Cut my leaves this year, and you won't cut my flowers next year," said the Daffodil to Tabitha Tidy.
Cut a rose for your neighbour, and it will tell two buds to blossom for you.
Don't let me forget to pray for travellers when I thank Heaven I'm content to stay in my own garden. It is furnished from the ends of the earth.
Enough comes out of anybody's old garden in autumn, to stock a new one for somebody else. But you want sympathy on one side and sense on the other, and they are rarer than most perennials.
Flowers are like gentlemen—"Best everywhere."[5]
[5] "Clowns are best in their own company, but gentlemen are best everywhere."—Old Proverb.
Give Mother Earth plenty of food, and she'll give you plenty of flowers.