Garden Gear
Card Quotes

For the Outside Greeting of each card:

1. Pick a quote. Selections can be from our entire data bank, not just GG
2. Remember the quote number and the first 3 words (you'll enter them on the order page) or
3. Use a favorite quote of your own (you'll write it on the order page)

For the Inside Message of each card:

1. Use the inside message paired with that quote (you'll select it on the order page) or
2. Change that inside message to better suit your situation (you'll write it on the order page) or
3. Pick an inside message (paired with a different quote) that works better (you'll write it on the order page) or
4. Use your own inside message (you'll write it on the order page)

Once you've decided on a gift and the quote/message you want, return to the product page (by clicking on Back or the gift link) and click on a Buy It button. You'll enter your quote/message information on the order page.

Quote
"For thee the wonder-working earth
puts forth sweet flowers."

Suggestion
Connect this outside quote to an inside message that says, I've found a gift that will be marvelous fun for your green thumb. Happy Birthday. (Or any other occasion)

Quote
"Now the summer came to pass
And flowers through the grass
Joyously sprang,
While all the tribes of birds sang."

Suggestion
Connect this outer quote to an inside message that says, Nothing surpasses the beauty of your pastoral world where you perform your garden magic. Happy Anniversary. (Or any other event)

Quote
"All that in this delightful garden grows,
Should happy be, and have immortal bliss."

Suggestion
Connect this outer quote to an inside message by saying, . . . as should the gardener who coaxes nature's beauty from the earth. Merry Christmas, Mom. (Or any other occasion)

Quote
"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to the inside message that says, Are you free for dinner on Friday night?

Quote
"Remember when we last gathered roses in the garden?
I found my wits; but truly you lost yours."

Suggestion
Connect the outer quote to an inside message that says, Let's do it again!

Quote
"The White chrysanthemum
Even when lifted to the eye
Remains immaculate."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to an inside message that says, . . . much in the same way that you appear so perfect each time I see you. Happy Anniversary.

Quote
"We must cultivate our garden."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to your inside message by saying, . . . into an earthly bower of bliss. Happy Valentine's Day! (Or any other occasion)

Quote
"A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
-Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to your inside message by saying, Your obvious charms are three alarm, but your hidden glories are hallucinatory.

Quote
"Who loves a garden still Eden keeps,
Perennial pleasures plants,
And wholesome harvests reaps."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to your inside message by saying, I have a tempting gift, far better than an apple, to help you with your perennials and annuals.

Quote
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to your inside message by saying, A daffodil discovery cannot compare to meeting you by chance, anywhere.

Quote
"Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculpted flower."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to an inside message that says, I'd never trade our brief but vibrant times together for a passionless commitment designed to last forever.

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

Suggestion
Connect this outside quote to an inside message that says, I've noticed you're having difficulty distinguishing the floral impostures from the legitimate blooms. Perhaps this will help. Happy Birthday to my favorite gardener!

Quote
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine"

Suggestion
Connect this quote to a related inside message that says, And I need only to gaze upon the garden that you have nurtured and nursed, to be enthralled by the perfect flurry of floral color bursts.

Quote
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to an inside message by saying, They are curious to see the cause of their recent neglect. Happy Birthday to my favorite gardener.

Quote
"Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow."

Suggestion
Expand this outside quote by adding as an inside message that says. Pluck kindly, she reveres all we sow, especially love that blooms under the mistletoe. Merry Christmas, dear.

Quote
"I know a little garden close,
Set thick with lily and red rose,
Where I would wander if I might
From dewy morn to dewy night."

Suggestion
It is a perfect card if you have a garden haven that you want to share with someone. The inside message can extend an invitation, . . . if you would rendezvous there too.

Quote
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."

Suggestion
Create a great card with an inside message that says, Home Depot was sold out, so I bought you this instead.

Quote
"For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

Suggestion
Add a snappy inside message that can have both a literal and figurative meaning. As we plan this garden, let's contemplate before we rush to germinate.

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