Newt sensations
Amateur Gardening|August 05, 2023
Given all the things he’s lost in his garden, Toby is pleased to discover something as precious as his new pond visitor
TOBY BUCKLAND
Newt sensations

I’VE lost many valuable things in my garden, including a phone, the keys (thankfully found), my wedding ring and – more recently – my watch.

The ring was the most valuable, and fell from my finger 20 years ago, so unless it miraculously falls from the beak of a passing magpie, there’s little hope of getting it back.

The watch, on the other hand (or make that wrist), has been absent for a comparative blink of an eye. It was only a year ago that I put it ‘somewhere safe’ while I gardened. If I could only remember where I was working, I’m sure it would still be there.

The one place I haven’t looked, until now, is our pond. The time frame works, as it’s in summer that I thin any plants that threaten to choke the water. And being a diver’s chronometer, it may even have survived where so many mobsters haven’t – swimming with the fishes.

This story is from the August 05, 2023 edition of Amateur Gardening.

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