Dear Clubbers,
The spring equinox is tomorrow and I’m not sure I’ve ever been so hyperventilating for it. As I get older the dark days of winter feel as though they’ll never end. And even now, when I should be used to the fact that I can still be pottering through the gloaming playing seedlings tetris without a torch at six thirty in the evening, spring feels like a magic spell spiralling out of the earth in stems of snakeshead fritillaries and tiny buttons of cherry plum blossom bursting out of what might have been dead grey twigs.
So here a tour of breathy enthusiasm round a, for once, quite tidy flower farm, and the creation of a beautiful arrangement of spring colour ordered by one friend for another two weeks before our season officially starts (who am I to refuse a commission when there are narcissi just peeling back their papery spathes to reveal promise of bud and scent, and the first anemones are opening up their happy faces to the sunlight in the poly tunnel?)
Since making the film I’ve sown some of the seeds but more to do tomorrow. I’ll give you the full list by editing this when I’ve done it, but for this evening here’s what I’ve sown so far this equinox:
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