Where You Tend a Rose by Frances Hodgson Burnett Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Frances Hodgson Burnett Related posts: How Does the Meadow Flower its Bloom Unfold The Pink Rose Falling Asleep in the Garden Someone Who Knows a Little Bit Less Than You. A July Afternoon by the Pond ← The Modest Rose Puts Forth a ThornThe Roses Get it →