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I have to stay my hand.
I am no neat-freak in the garden, and quite possibly the one true king of Leave-it-for-the-Birds Land, but I feel my right hand rise towards the hip where habitually my secateurs can be found. So much crunchiness in the garden right now. Dead and crispy and brown, like last summer’s old flowering stems on the hydrangeas (the gorgeous ‘Annabelle’ in the photo), restraint requiring increasing levels of effort. It’s easy enough in the magical atmosphere conjured by the morning frost, but once that thaws, or on those days where the weather rarely if ever manages to rouse itself beyond dull and damp, my snipping hand begins to twitch. I know from experience that, should I surrender to the impulse, the resulting tidiness will be a poor substitute for the loss of vertical punctuation.
The garden drips, and I give myself the order to stand down.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
