“And this, my lovely child, is your garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Archie
The Secret Garden (1909)
On Arsenal's old stadium.
Attributed
“And this, my lovely child, is your garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Archie
The Secret Garden (1909)
Becky Stark (1976) American singer
Garden Rose
Imagine Our Love (2007)
Context: I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.
I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.
And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue
And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
And I love the garden rose.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Violet from The Literary Souvenir, 1831
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
Anchee Min (1957) Chinese-American author
Source: On the way she pays homage to China in “Anchee Min: 'If I had stayed in China, I would be dead'” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10116718/Anchee-Min-If-I-had-stayed-in-China-I-would-be-dead.html in The Telegraph (2013 Jul 4)
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) garden designer, artist
As quoted in Dig, Plant, and Grow! (2009) by Louise Spilsbury, p. 13
Other
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author
Horvendile, in Ch. 13 : What a Boy Thought
The Way of Ecben (1929)
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 566.
Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)