1. Deadheading. I want you to concentrate on flowers, not capers. The nose-twisting smell of nasturtium sap.
2. Nick's mother tells me to spend it on "something nice that you need."
3. This plant food is such a bright blue that I am afraid it will tint my garden with undersea colours.
Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.
1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...