Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

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I often miss my old English Country garden with its hedges and pond and so much wildlife, but it's seriously hard to complain about stuff like this in the middle of January. So much edible sunshine growing in our tiny backyard.

Also very pleased to see tiny green buds popping on the three clematis vines I assumed I had murdered last year.

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Got out in the garden today and took down all the dead and dying branches and plants. Filled the big green bin in one fell swoop!

Garden is cleaner and more open, soil seems healthy and full of worms and I even got a decent little harvest of sun chokes that I'd forgotten about until I went to pull down the dead stalks!

I'm feeling that happy exhausted feeling that only comes with garden work. 🥰💚🏡🧙‍♀️

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I planted a tiny pipe cleaner of a pine tree back in 2019 for my wife’s birthday. We named it Frances, and we take pictures in front of it every year on her birthday.

This year it’s taller than me, tall enough to decorate with festive holiday lights. This makes me very happy.

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