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Welcome to The Garden Thymes Blog!! This blog is meant to open a dialogue for anyone interested in any aspect of gardening. It is intended to be a forum where knowledge and experience are exchanged and ideas discussed.

Gardening, of some sort, has existed nearly as long as humans - the practice of cultivating seeds for food predates history. Historically, gardens were either places of tranquility – where one could become closer to God, or, utilitarian - where food and medicines were grown.

Gardens have long been the obsession of novelists, painters and poets. Though gardening itself has been considered art, it is also a science. The management and selection of plants for the environment in which they will live is a science. Combining science and art is the only means to a successful landscape.

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting - a picture of hundreds of feet or yards instead of so many inches, painted with living flowers and seen by open daylight - so that to paint it rightly is a debt that we owe to the beauty of flowers and to the light of the sun.

-William Robinson - The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds, 1883