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Topiary Art - Galleries and tours of historic English castles and topiary gardens, library and online topiary course.
Historic Parks and Gardens of Wales - Guide to locations, features and opening times.
The National Garden Scheme - Information on over 3300 gardens open for charity, with maps. Over £1.5 million was raised in 2001; update on how the money was spent, and how to join the scheme.
UK Database of Historic Parks and Gardens - A developing project at the University of York. The data is indexed by place, local authority, by type, and even by people associated with the site. Contact information available.
Great British Gardens - Listing and descriptions of gardens to visit in the south-west and south-east, with places to stay locally, details of facilities and contact.
Gardening UK's Gardening Events and Open Gardens - County by county listing of gardening events and gardens open to the public in the UK (and elsewhere!).
Scottish Gardens - A selection of Scottish gardens to visit, listed by county.
Gardens Scotland - Guide to gardens and nurseries to visit in the North of Scotland. Also offer tours with an expert.
Essential British Gardens - Clickable map to a guide to the finest gardens and arboretums in Britain. Plant nurseries with interesting garden displays included.
National Trust Gardens - Guide to gardens to visit, and gardens of the season. News and information on their conservation and educational activities.
The uk.rec.gardening Web Ring. - Links web sites of uk.rec.gardening subscribers with pages devoted to their own gardens. No commercial or "vested interests".
Gateway Gardens Trust - Enables access to the historic garden heritage of Wales for a very wide range of groups for whom this has been difficult. Information on the scheme and how it works.
Japanese gardens in the UK and Ireland - Offers a searchable database of Japanese Gardens in the UK and Ireland, with photos and visiting details.
Modern Gardens Open Day - On June 26th, 2004 gardens featuring the work of modern garden designers will be open for public view. Background, county listings, photographs and descriptions.
Gardens to Go - A guide to gardens in the South East of England with descriptions, photographs, and links.
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(Kenneth Tynan) Gardens ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gardens "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." 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Tru "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Gardens He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Gardens The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Gardens Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Gardens Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Gardens Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Gardens Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Gardens "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Gardens Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Gardens Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Gardens Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Gardens How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Gardens "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Gardens To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what Gardens "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Gardens "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Gardens "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." 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