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GREEN GARDEN
everything, if your garden fence is so big and solid that the hedgehogs can’t get in and find them! Everyone has fences and walls now, and there are a lot fewer grassy patches, which used to be like hedgehog roads. They don’t like streets, or patios, and I suppose if they have to go on roads they get squashed by cars.” Izzy sighed sadly. “I haven’t seen a hedgehog for ages, except squashed ones. So the email said to please ask your parents to cut a little hedgehog-sized hole in your fence.” Then she laughed. “I asked Dad and he said we didn’t need to, the fence is full of holes anyway. He’s always out doing other people’s gardens; he doesn’t get time to do ours.”
“I wish it didn’t have to be one entry for each person,” Poppy said, looking enviously at Izzy’s notes. “You know so much about all this stuff. I could draw it, and you could have the ideas.”
“Wild flowers was your idea,” Izzy reminded her. “And I haven’t a clue about what I want my design to look like. I might not even enter – except I probably ought to, just to keep Dad happy.”
“Only a week till we have to give them in,” Poppy said thoughtfully. “I wonder if Mr Finlay will let us do the designing instead of homework?”
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