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person in charge of the competition. I definitely need to look at this, then I can find out what sort of gardens he likes! Can I take it upstairs?”
Her mum nodded. “Sure. Show me the design when you’ve done it, won’t you, Poppy? I’d really like to see it.”
Poppy grinned at her. “It doesn’t mean I’m going to be any more into gardening, Mum. I don’t want to go and deadhead the roses, or whatever it is you were going to ask.”
“Oh, well. It would just be nice if one of you liked gardening.” Her mother sighed. “Alex and Jake only go in the garden to play football, or if I blackmail one of them into cutting the grass.”
“I like picking the flowers for making things,” Poppy reminded her. “Lavender and rose petals and things. I’ll look after the book, Mum. Thanks!”
She went slowly back upstairs, leafing through the book. It was full of gorgeous pictures of flowers, and just as she reached her bedroom, she gave a satisfied sigh. There it was. The kitchen garden from a chateau in France, laid out in the same sort of way as the little picture in her essential oils book.
Poppy smiled at the map as she went to sit down on her bed. Somehow it reminded her of her mum’s
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