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Voices: I've worked on my garden for 21 years – now I'm opening it up to the public
Voices: I've worked on my garden for 21 years – now I'm opening it up to the public

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Voices: I've worked on my garden for 21 years – now I'm opening it up to the public

The National Garden Scheme I was a special event in a different context: No poetry haggled out of words, or art Coiled across the canvas and made shapes of. If King Charlies were to visit I could not have tried harder; The twenty-five who'd paid to examine my landscaping and topiary Were each as important as he. My held breath during a period Where not much was blooming, was released At the last minute flowering of six-foot-tall lilies That had unfurled their skirts of brightly coloured silks, The pink and crimson froths of the astilbes, The brilliant purple pourings of campanulas From gaps, nooks, crannies, flowerpots and cracks in pavers, Astrantia, dianthus, alstroemerias, lavender, linaria, Veronica And the first agapanthus. From the visual silence of many greens Sudden screams of colour blazed from the oddly made flowerbeds And strangely shaped pathways that I'd carved from a one-time field Into a map of the inside of my restless head. 'Oh, so beautiful,' they said, unable to imagine All the jobs left undone that were so evident to me And that I must finish before the second one.

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