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ED’S COMMENT

SALUTE TO GREEN

Since the Covid lockdown, our lives advantages they have. If you’ve been
have been in a state of flux and change. cooped up at home and have a garden,
It has upended the known and the you are indeed fortunate to be able to get
familiar, altering just about everything. up from your desk and walk outside into a
One constant amidst the chaos is the green space, feel the grass under your feet
steadfastness of nature, and the healing it and smell the roses! I live in a block of flats
provides. that is surrounded by beautiful gardens,
and I don’t know what I would have done
Working from home and spending more without them during lockdown. They
time in confined spaces has brought about provided an escape and a relief from the
more focus on peoples’ gardens, for those cabin fever that was ever-present. If you
lucky enough to have them. I’m hoping don’t have a garden, bring pot plants inside;
that this has led to more of an appreciation if you don’t have a view of nature from your
of the green industry, the people who work window, bring in a landscape painting.
in it and the benefits it brings.
I salute and thank the nursery people,
Too often, landscaped spaces are not given the landscapers, the plant growers, the Karyn Richards
the credit they deserve for the positive horticulturists, for their dedication to green. Editor

EVERGREEN

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