Allotment day today, where we dug, dug and dug some more. And received gifts of;
Tray full of marigolds
Pots of sunflowers
A huge rhubarb crown
Pots of lettuce
Artichokes
….. and a polytunnel 
And a whole load of joy. 

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
Hanna Rion
Where flowers bloom so does hope. 
Lady Bird Johnson
When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, There is always the garden
Minnie Aumonier
You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.
Author Unknown
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. 
John Erskine
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
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
To dig one’s own spade into one’s own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
Beverley Nichols
The one who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
Vita Sackville-West
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. 
Ghandi
All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor’s.
Mary Cantwell
Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. 
Henry Mitchell