...if you will take a walk with me
parsley
potatoes
carrots
nasturtiums
lettuces
silverbeet
leeks sprouting
brocolli, capsicum and eggplant
radishes
sweetcorn and sunflowers
green peas and sweet peas
ripening cherries
blushing quinces
blood plums
other plums
rununculi and pansies
strawberries
red currants
raspberry bushes
white roses
red roses
palest of pink roses
wild flowers
...there are also green beans, purple beans, tomatoes and apples,
red and brown onions, garlic, thyme, rosemary, lavender, daisies,
peaches and pears, a lemon tree, a young olive grove, bee hives,
jasmine, borage, basil, mint, agapanthus, fir trees, fig trees, magpie
fledglings, loquats, blue tongue lizards and perhaps the odd snake,
wild cherry plums, kookaburras, baby starlings and baby blackbirds,
wolf spiders, a resident fox and kestrel, an owl or two, a rookery
of crows, flowering succulents, a frangipani tree, mushrooms, wild
fennel, fruit bats and a fairy garden planted beneath a 'faraway tree'....
After living through a long drought with tiny inner city courtyards
and huge water restrictions, this garden and the return of rain is....
✶⠚ heaven on earth ⠚✶
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