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Wildlife from my window

“As I garden organically, the wildlife owns my garden every bit as much as I do”

There is no doubt about it, being confined to my house and garden every day for the best part of two months has brought me so much closer to my patch of earth – spiritually as well as physically. Like many whose jobs take them away from home I rush out into my garden on my return – marvelling at how something has grown, exclaiming with delight as the bearded irises in the border by the house erupt into flower, or seeing how much more of the pond’s surface the lily pads have taken up since I left. It’s not that I am ever away from

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