Night moves
Amateur Gardening|July 24, 2021
While fellow gardeners dream of future glories, Toby spends the wee small hours revelling in the night life
- Toby Buckland
Night moves

I ’VE just spent the night in the garden – not because I’ve lost the house keys, but as a show of support for Send a Cow’s ‘Gardens for Good’ Campaign.

I wish I could say that pitching a tent on the lawn and sleeping under the stars was like taking a holiday at home, but it wasn’t. Not only do I lack comfortable camping equipment, but it turns out that my garden is noisier than downtown Marrakesh on market day.

From the moment the sun went down, the hullabaloo of the birds was incessant, with seagulls cackling at their own jokes, followed at midnight by a blackbird trilling the last post from a spot right by my tent. After a few short hours, he packed up his bugle only for a barn owl to take up the chorus with its bloodcurdling screech.

By 3.30am, as wide awake as a possum on Red Bull, I took the decision to quit the tent and find a useful job to do in the garden.

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この蚘事は Amateur Gardening の July 24, 2021 版に掲茉されおいたす。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トラむアルを開始しお、䜕千もの厳遞されたプレミアム ストヌリヌ、9,000 以䞊の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしおください。