Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Up before the hour of the flatulent sparrow, and I have the garden to myself. The plastic tarpaulin – offensively blue under the security lights – quickly laid out in anticipation of a tipper-load of manure and weighted down against the wind of which, mercifully, there seems to be little this morning. It’s cold, though; the car, whose windows I scraped clear not twenty minutes ago at home, is already beginning to ice up again. I wander up along the path, the blue-black bruise of a night sky fading all the while, and continue on into the nuttery beneath bare hazel boughs, arriving as the first birds greet the light. Beneath tentative chirrups and tweets and frosted leaves crunching under boots a new sound grows, and I recognise the distant engine note of the delivery truck on the road into the village. An about turn, a brisk walk back – not too fast, so as not to slip on the slope – and a waved ‘halloo!’ to the driver. It’s going to be a good day out here.
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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.
