{"id":4401,"date":"2014-01-12T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2014-01-12T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T07:04:08","slug":"back-garden-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=4401","title":{"rendered":"Back Garden Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I didn’t have enough potting mix to fill the pots – but hopefully it’s enough to keep them going for the winter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was gardening yesterday. Yep. Gardening. Despite the rain and the freezing temperatures. Well \u2013 I did the gardening in a short minute when blue skies appeared above our house, but I was well aware that it wasn\u2019t actually gardening weather.<\/p>\n

I had to plant two bushes I\u2019d been given for Christmas into big pots. Hopefully, they\u2019ll \u2013 if not flourish \u2013 at least survive there until the spring. When I\u2019ll decide where in the garden they should be planted.<\/p>\n

You see, my thumbs are more brown than green. And its not my fault – honestly!<\/p>\n

I grew up in a small Australian bush town, that did not have reticulated water. We couldn\u2019t just turn on a tap \u2013 or a garden hose – knowing there was water there just for the asking. We relied on rain water captured off the roof into a big concrete tank. And in that part of Queensland, it doesn\u2019t rain too often. Thus \u2013 our house didn\u2019t have a garden. There were a couple of orange trees, to which we carted the grey water out of the washing machine. But no lawn or flower beds.<\/p>\n

Now that I live somewhere where there can be too much water (roads near us are closed at the moment due to flooding) you\u2019d think it would be an easy matter to start a garden. But my thumbs, it appears, remain firmly brown.<\/p>\n

There are some daffodils in the garden \u2013 they were left from the previous owner and just grow without any help or interference from me.<\/p>\n

I bought some tulip bulbs on a trip to the Netherlands \u2013 they survive \u2013 if the squirrels don\u2019t get to them before they sprout.<\/p>\n

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They seem to do well without me – even in the snow. So I tend to leave them alone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did once prepare a flower bed in the back garden, which now sports a fabulous crop of weeds and is used by all the neighbourhood cats as a litter tray. However, – when digging up the garden we discovered something \u2013 an old well. It\u2019s been covered to make it safe \u2013 but the round brick sides left no doubt as to what it is.<\/p>\n

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I wonder when the well was dug. Who drank from it. And who covered it. There is a story there, I’m sure. Perhaps more than one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course, I immediately started imagining the who why and what of that well \u2013 and within minutes was inside writing a story. I haven\u2019t done anything with the story yet. I will some day. When I finish the book I\u2019m writing now. And the next one that is already forming in my head\u2026<\/p>\n

In the meantime \u2013 cross your fingers that my brown thumbs are turning just a faint shade of green \u2013 and that those pretty bushes thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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