We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. – Jenny Uglow

Option # 14 in the March This or That? Challenges gives you the choice of creating a layout inspired by either the phrase Green Thumb or Feeling Blue. Last week, we talked about kit options for layouts about feeling blue; now it’s time to dig into the metaphorical soil and look at kits to help you scrapbook your love of gardening and growing things!

Whether you love to fill your rooms with houseplants or line your windowsills with succulents and cacti, have a small salsa garden or are trying your hand at homesteading, have a few pots of perennials on your porch or flower beds overflowing with color, we’ve got kits and templates in the Shoppe you can use to chronicle their growth. Have a look and be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post where you’ll find quotes you can use on your next gardening-related scrapbook page.

Quotes you can use on your next layout about gardening and your green thumb:

• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero
• To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. – Audrey Hepburn
• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life begins the day you start a garden.
• The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. – Gertrude Jekyll
• I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. – Ruth Stout
• We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. – Jenny Uglow
• All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
• Gardening is an instrument of grace. – May Sarton
• Gardening adds years to your life, and life to your years.
• Bloom where you are planted.
• Gardening is a metaphor for life, teaching you to nourish new life and weed out that which cannot succeed. – Nelson Mandela
• Garden as though you will live forever. – William Kent
• I like gardening – it’s a place I find myself when I need to lose myself. – Alice Sebold
• Gardening is cheaper than therapy, and you get tomatoes.
• There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. – Janet Kilburn Phillips
• Gardening requires a lot of water, most of it in the form of perspiration. – Lou Erickson
• Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s Party!” – Robin Williams
• Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. – Veronica A. Shoffstall
• Gardening is the work of a lifetime: You never finish. – Oscar De La Renta
• To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. – Alfred Austin
• A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. – Zen Shin
• Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.