There is a big vaseful on my table before me now.  And behind me are other cases full of the sweetest of sweet peas and yellow poppies, and nasturtiums like breaths of flame.  It is the greatest pleasure my days bring me to go out to my garden every morning and see what new blossoms have opened overnight.  At such moments my heart fairly bursts with its gladness.  Oh, what a wise old myth it was that placed the creation of life in a garden.  Oh, you dear pink rose, here is a kiss for you!  I think that long ago in heaven you and I were sister spirits.  You were born a rose and I a woman.  You are the happier, perhaps.  But yet I’m glad to be a woman with a garden and a work and a sorrow.  Three blessings—ay, three blessings all!"

~ L.M. Montgomery
July 30, 1905
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. I: 1889-1910

Author L.M. Montgomery cherished the happiness her garden gave her and she ceaselessly worked her love of flowers into her many novels and short stories.  She seems to admire her roses most. 

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Photo: Maud enjoying a field of daisies in Prince Edward Island (from The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album).