THE HYPERBOREA PROJECT

nukkumatti said:

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

I took the nap already and now it's towards the new sunrise!

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Peat said:

:friends:

Happy New Year / Decade to you too, my frozen friend!

I started "counting down" a few days / daze ago.
I may not make it to midnight, LOL


BTW, That's a great collection of garden philosophy.

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Suomi-Prkl said:

MADE IT!

i'm pretty to hit it now though! have a great one bro!

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esbe said:

happy new year northern bro! i admire you spirit and devotion a lot!

best 2010 wishes to all of you up there!

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My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Dale (Thanks, Anne)


Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. ~Lou Erickson


What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ~Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871


There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler


Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ~Author Unknown


The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ~George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, 1932


Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. ~Victoria Glendinning


In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn


The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion


In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban


It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane


Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~Marcelene Cox


God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~Author Unknown


I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse


Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~Anne Raver


When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. ~Linda Solegato


Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots. ~Author Unknown


Take thy plastic spade,
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,
They are thy colours.
~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782


It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993


Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~Lindley Karstens, noproblemgarden.com


I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,
I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~Robert Bridges, "Testament of Beauty"


Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card


How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli


Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
~Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden"


You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown


I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. ~Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden, 1909


Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~Astrid Alauda



The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb


Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora. ~Ketzel Levine's talkingplants.com


On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897 (Thanks, Jessica)


No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson


From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. ~Evelyn Underhill, Letters


Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com


I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. ~F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace


Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks


Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise. ~Michael P. Garafalo, gardendigest.com


Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732


In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. ~Frank McKinney Hubbard


It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~Walt Whitman


Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. ~Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces, 1977


Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. ~H.E. Bates, A Love of Flowers


I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. ~Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666


One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns, The Passing Show


Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ~Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia, A Land of Plenty


I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. ~John Erskine


Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. ~Russell Page


It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. ~W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, Garden Rubbish, 1936


A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. ~Charles Lamb, 1830


When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown


Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. ~Karel Čapek, The Gardener's Year, translated by M. and R. Weatherall, 1931


Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. ~C.E. Lucas-Phillips, The New Small Garden


Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. ~Linda Solegato


Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. ~S.J. Perelman, Acres and Pains, 1951


I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988


It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing. ~Eleanor Perényi, Green Thoughts, 1981


Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
~Dorothy Frances Gurney, "Garden Thoughts"


Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. ~Henry David Thoreau


Just because you've only got houseplants doesn't mean you don't have the gardening spirit - I look upon myself as an indoor gardener. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe


Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. ~Lewis Gannit


When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. ~Frank Swinnerton


Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. ~May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968


There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ~Alfred Austin


The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow. ~Author Unknown


By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. ~Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981

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"Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God ." -- Thomas Jefferson

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." --Greek proverb

"I'm not really a career person. I'm a gardener, basically."-- George Harrison

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."-- Abraham Lincoln

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."-- Claude Monet

"She (or he!) who plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see a plant,
believes in God."

"To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?"-- Beverley Nichols

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." -- Gertrude Jekyll

"A garden is never so good as it will be next year."-- Thomas Cooper

"The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world." -- Vita Sackville-West

"Earth laughs in flower."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."-- Thomas Jefferson

"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments." -- Janet Kilburn Phillips

"Cares melt when you kneel in your garden."

"A garden is a friend you can visit any time."

"Friends are flowers in life's garden."

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." -- Kozuko Okakura

"Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us." --Wolfgang von Geothe

"If you have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden."

"I garden, therefore I am."

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." --Aristotle

"Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You're closer to God's heart in a garden than any place else on earth." -- Dorothy Frances Gurney

"Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns have roses."

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." --William Shakespeare

"When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, There is always the garden."-- Minnie Aumonier

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." --Francis Bacon

"Cultivate the garden within."

"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden." --John Erskine

"But each spring...a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground." -- Lewis Gantt

"A weed is only a misplaced plant."

"What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place." -- Donald Culross Peattie

"What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." -- Emerson

"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." -- Henry David Thoreau

"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures." -- Francis Bacon

"The garden is a mirror of the heart."

"One who plants a garden, plants happiness."

"The garden that is finished is dead."-- H. E. Bates

"He who plants a tree, plants a hope."

"He who plants a tree loves others besides himself."

"As Rosemary is to the spirit, so Lavender is to the soul."

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."-- Henry Beecher

"As the Garden Grows, so does the Gardener"

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

"Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow."

"Though an old man, I am but a young gardener."-- Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing is more the child of art than a garden."-- Sir Walter Scott

"God almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."-- Francis Bacon

"There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt."

"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." -- The Koran

"In the Garden, my soul is sunshine."

"We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden."

"A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul." -- Sadi

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust

"So many seeds -- so little time."

"Where but in a garden do summer hours pass so quickly?"

"It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree."--Clare Leighton

"All my hurts my garden spade can heal."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tickle the earth with a hoe, it will laugh a harvest."

"Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's."-- Mary Cantwell

"All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb

"God gave us memories that we may have roses in December."--J. M. Barrie

"The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession." -- Phyllis McGinley

"All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden."-- Reginald Farrer

"An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life."

"Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace."

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arcticsun said:

hehe, greit nok det, men jeg vil jo ikke fare med tøvprat rundt omkring. Eller ikke mer enn normalt ivæffal

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arcticsun said:

Super Silver Haze F2, freebies from fritillary seed collective.

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