I know many quilters and most of them also garden. I think that the hobbies have some common elements: both quilting and gardening appeal to people who love color, and who are patient and determined.
I love gardening.
We have a small perennial garden in front, with something in bloom every month of the year. Right now, pink heath, white snowdrops and hellebore are blooming.
There's a veggie patch out back with blueberry bushes as a hedge. It's surrounded with perennials in happy disarray-- a cottage garden filled with iris, lilies, peonies, summersweet, coneflowers, asters. It changes every year as the plants get bigger and spread and self sow.
My husband planted 9 rose bushed for me and edged them with catmint. And I have a rather large shade garden that is finally looking lush after 12 years. It took a while to fill in. But quilters are patient.