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Led
By The Nose
A garden of smells
By Jenny Joseph
Jenny
Joseph is a writer of intangible originality who makes us see and
hear and smell the world afresh. Here she gives an olfactory account,
month by month, as she journeys through her garden and woodland
areas surrounding her house. "So August is the beginning of the
gathering season as well as the harvesting of cultivated crops.
There are lighter sweeter smells as well from two plants that will
have a resurgence now if you picked sedulously earlier on —
sweet peas and wild strawberries. Mingled with these are astringent
smells of nasturtium, tomatoes, bonfires, new feverfew leaves, poppy
stalks. How could anyone, how can I, think of August as a dull month?"
No pics, but beautifully written. A marvellous gift for the garden
lover.
Reproduced
with permission from NZOOM Home and Garden content,
from the previous
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