Vintage Girl Hanging Clothes on the Line ~ Wash Day

"The maid was in the gardenHanging out the clothes..."~ Excerpt from Sing a Song of Sixpense

Young Girl Arranging Flowers

Victorian Children Playing in Pond

Sweet Victorian Girl Reading on Bench

Gorgeous Spring Bouquet ~ Art Print

VIOLET

(Viola Odorata.) Modesty.

"As the dew that moistens the rose at dawn,

Gives the Violet many a tear,

So bright in the morning of life she shone,

That her fragrance still lives while her spirit is gone,

Embalming her memory here."

~ M'Comb.

Lovely French Woman in Garden with Cupid & Rose Garland Frame

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

~Jane Austen

Victorian Vintage Roses in Yellow and Red

"And the roses--the roses! Rising out of the grass, tangled round the sun-dial, wreathing the tree trunks and hanging from their branches, climbing up the walls and spreading over them with long garlands falling in cascades --they came alive day by day, hour by hour. Fair fresh leaves, and buds--and buds--tiny at first but swelling and working Magic until they burst and uncurled into cups of scent delicately spilling themselves over their brims and filling the garden air."

~ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Victorian Vintage Antique Roses Clip Art

Lovely Girl in the Garden ~ Floral Label

"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose,

and the eyes will take care of themselves."

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Basket of Flowers Painting

Basket of Flowers by Paul De Longpre

Spring Bouquet ~ Art Print

"Ye flowers of beauty, pencilled by the hand of God!"

~ Pollok

Regency Inspired Gardening Girls Frame

This lovely frame would make a nice gift tag, bookplate or label.

The artwork is by Kate Greenaway.

Vintage Rose Garden Illustration

"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,

A box where sweets compacted lie."

~ George Herbert

Garden Tools

"If I have a spade," she whispered, "I can make the earth nice and soft and dig up weeds. If I have seeds and can make flowers grow the garden won't be dead at all-it will come alive."

~ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

free garden tools clip art

Vintage Bouquet of Pansies

"And there is pansies, that's for thoughts."

~ William Shakespeare

Chicken Illustration of Rooster and Hen

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens

Daffodils

“A host of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

~ William Wordsworth

Edwardian Maiden Walking Through Garden

“May I a small house and large garden have;

And a few friends,

And many books, both true.”

~ Abraham Cowley

Butterfly and Roses

"The tulip and the butterfly

Appear in gayer coats than I:

Let me be dressed fine as I will,

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."

~Isaac Watts

Spring Cleaning Clip Art

Cleaning Plain & Simple

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