20 Inspiring Captions for Every Photo in the Garden

With spring just around the corner, we've been back in the garden, planning ahead and planting plenty of fruits, veggies, herbs and flowers in anticipation of the seasons ahead.

There's something about the process that's so therapeutic, as gardening gives us the chance to tend to and nurture something outside of ourselves and watch something incredible grow out of practically nothing. Plus, there are few things more satisfying that harvesting and eating something you grew from seed to delicious plant. Ready to share your own proudest moments from your year-round gardening? We captions below will have you covered.

For planning for the future:

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

-Audrey Hepburn

Unsplash: Woman holding potted plant in garden by Taisiia Stupak

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For sweating so much you don't have to set up a sprinkler:

"Gardening requires lots of water—most of it in the form of perspiration."

-Lou Erickson

 

For the gorgeous rainbow of petals you've grown:

"Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world."

 

For stopping by to see your best pal:

"A garden is a friend you can visit any time."

-Okakura Kakuzo

 

For being self-sufficient:

"So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers."

-Jorge Luis Borges

 

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For pricking your finger in your beautiful yet deadly garden:

"Rose garden filled with thorns."

-"Blank Space," Taylor Swift

 

For sharing the beauty of your garden with the world:

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

-Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 

For that gorgeous aerial shot of your whole garden:

"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as a canvass."

-Elizabeth Murray

 

For learning so much from growing your plants:

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."

-Chinese proverb

Unsplash: Plant and soil in hand in garden by Benjamin Combs

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For working on self-improvement in the garden:

"As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds."

-Francis Bacon

 

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For when you're all muddy by deeply content:

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

-Margaret Atwood

 

For the plot that's been a ton of hard work:

"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade."

-Rudyard Kipling, Complete Verse

 

For the passion you've followed for years:

"The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies."

-Gertrude Jekyll

 

For the gardening practice that fulfills all your needs:

"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."

-Alfred Austin

Unsplash: Woman picking carrots in garden by Ny Menghor

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For showing what you've grown, despite a few setbacks:

"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself."

-May Sarton

 

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For putting your blood, sweat and tears into making your garden perfect:

"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."

-Liberty Hyde Bailey

 

For reading in the garden and requiring nothing else:

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

For feeling like you speak the language of your little patch of land:

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden."

-Thomas Jefferson

 

For the square of earth that grows beyond your wildest dreams:

"If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden."

-Robert Brault

 

For when trying something new doesn't work out:

"There are never gardening mistakes, only experiments."

 

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