As the final day of the gardening blog, I leave you all with some fun plant quotes and trivia…

Happy gardening to all!

* Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool. He changed it every two innings.

* A tick can live a year without a meal.

* At one point, all of the plants in Tomorrowland at Disneyland were edible.

* Snails can sleep for three years.

* “The garden that is finished is dead.”(H. E. Bates)

* “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” (Abraham Lincoln)

* Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward.

* Daisies get their name from “day’s eyes” because they look like the sun.

* Some 90% of home gardeners plant tomatoes.

* “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” (Doug Larson)

* Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 and the saguaro cactus doesn’t produce branches until it’s 75.

* Mosquitoes are most attracted to the color blue.

* “Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. “ (Lou Erickson)

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