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GREEN GARDEN
new kitchen tiles. The fancy blue patterned ones she’d had put along the back of the sink. It was the same sort of geometric pattern. Poppy flicked over the page, and there was a photo of part of the garden. Tiny, delicate little hedges, so straight and perfect. It looked like they must trim them with nail scissors and a ruler, she thought. There was a rose bush in the middle of the square, and oddly familiar round green things were planted in between the lines of hedge. Poppy frowned at them, until she realised they were cabbages. Cabbages and roses! She giggled.
She scanned the text by the pictures. It made sense, all the little stone paths, winding in and out of the beds. It meant you could get at the fruit and vegetables easily to harvest them. And the nicest gardens were often in monasteries, where the monks had time to work on looking after the plants carefully, and they only had quite small spaces, so everything had to be planted up close.
Just like the school garden. And it would be easy to make it accessible for wheelchairs, because of the little paths – in fact, some of the beds could be raised up perhaps, so people didn’t have to lean down. Poppy twirled her hair round her fingers thoughtfully. She needed to put the green and blue streaks back in,
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