VT 24.5.13

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A holly at the bottom of the garden may be the last remnant of the natural landscape that existed before urbanisation spread over your patch.  That is quite a comforting thought - a thread that connects the before and the after.  It need not stop you gardening around it, planting cyclamen close to its trunk and ferns to unfold after the holly's berries have gone.  Tune yourself into the holly's pace of life.  Think slow.

Anna Pavord, 'The Curious Gardener'