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For the first time in my life I’m in charge of a garden. Is it too late to plant? | Ashe Davenport

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For the first time in my life I’m in charge of a garden. Is it too late to plant? | Ashe Davenport
I envy people with strong opinions about this flower or that. They seem to know what they’re doing in life, what any of it meansGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI’ve moved from the city

I envy people with strong opinions about this flower or that. They seem to know what they’re doing in life, what any of it means

I’ve moved from the city to Melbourne’s outer east, where everybody knows how to garden. Blundstoned parents swagger in for school pickup with secateurs in their belts and parsnips the size of your arm. They have wood chippers and chainsaws and trailers filled with enough mulch to cover a national park, which until yesterday I believed was pronounced mulsh.

For the first time in my life I’m in charge of a garden. It has a lawn and some flowerbeds which require weeding every now and then. I envy women with strong opinions about this flower or that. They seem to know what they’re doing in life, which direction to take, what any of it means. I hope to someday have the confidence to make sweeping, ludicrous statements like Madonna’s “I absolutely loathe hydrangeas”.

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