Tag: garden
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A Springtime Walk in the Woods
I love walking in the woods in Springtime. The reawakening that the season brings is more apparent there than anywhere else, and I find myself quite enchanted by the unfurling of buds into leaves, the ever-changing damasked undergrowth, and the play of light through the maturing canopy. On each visit I notice something new – catkins, flushed with pollen,…
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Seed Sowing and a Poem
Can there be anything as quietly miraculous as the burying of a seed, the hopeful waiting, and emergence of a tender, nodding seedling? One of my favourite activities in the depths of winter is to curl up in an armchair, with a cup of tea and a stack of seed catalogues by my side, and…