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| Snap Dragons, Crab Apples and Lantern fish - Click to embiggen - Illustration by Alex Douglas |
No sooner than we had chased
those Dandy Lions from our garden than we were beset by the damn Snap Dragons.
The pesky things flittered around our ankles and gave such nasty little bites that would sting for days.
It had started with the Pussy Willow who came prowling hungry at our back door and the children told Nanny to feed her.
Once encouraged, we could not shake Pussy Willow loose, soon she set up selling Fox Gloves by the bird bath, which of course brought in foxes. And dapper foxes in gloves led to Dandy Lions.
Word was out we were at home to visitors.
Our orchard was overrun with Crab Apples that pinched at any fingers that dare pluck at fruit.
Our lovely forest, past the pond charmingly lit by Lantern fish but now wild with Tiger Lilies, was a shambles. Suddenly part Worm Wood, part Dog Wood, it slithered and snarled and one was not safe day or night.
The pesky things flittered around our ankles and gave such nasty little bites that would sting for days.
It had started with the Pussy Willow who came prowling hungry at our back door and the children told Nanny to feed her.
Once encouraged, we could not shake Pussy Willow loose, soon she set up selling Fox Gloves by the bird bath, which of course brought in foxes. And dapper foxes in gloves led to Dandy Lions.
Word was out we were at home to visitors.
Our orchard was overrun with Crab Apples that pinched at any fingers that dare pluck at fruit.
Our lovely forest, past the pond charmingly lit by Lantern fish but now wild with Tiger Lilies, was a shambles. Suddenly part Worm Wood, part Dog Wood, it slithered and snarled and one was not safe day or night.
Our grounds, with barely a week’s neglect, became a jungle.
Surely I would fire the Gardner, if he survived the Leopards Bane.
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