Country Style

against the elements

HIS IS AN ODE TO Australian gardeners. To the people who garden in the hot sun and pouring rain. Who run out to stake precious flowers in ear-snapping winds. Who, in drought, save all the water that can possibly be saved to pour onto precious jade trees at the back door or chrysanthemums planted at the front; plants given to them by someone beloved, so, undeterred and resilient plants-people!

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