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Garden
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Garden
The flower stall by the bakery
I go for bread and leave with tulips. The baker knows and has stopped laughing.
Garden
The rose path at the manor
Someone has clipped that hedge for a hundred years. I only walk on it.
Garden
Weeding after rain
Dry ground snaps the root. Wet ground lets you have the whole thing, which is the only victory on offer.
Garden
The compost that finally heated
For two years it was just a wet pile. Then it steamed, and I stood there like I had invented fire.
Garden
The tomato that refused July
Everything else bolted. This one waited until I had almost given up on it.
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A cutting in a jar of water
My neighbour handed me a broken branch and said it would root. It did.