Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening
books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables,
flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
What a man needs in gardening is
a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
God Almighty first planted a garden.
And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt,
head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture
a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
How deeply seated in the human heart is
the liking for gardens and gardening.