Titanarum

A good friend M needs her lawn trimmed. I’ve been helping her out on and off for the past five years. As she loves her garden but has too many health problems to keep it tending her small patch is a pleasure for me. Apart from the lawn I will be checking out the passionflower. It took ill last year and having tried various remedies I expect we will have to start afresh. They self seed easily and we have at least 10 contenders at knee height. I will also be helping her decide on a fitting tribute to her cat Shelley, who passed away last autumn. The last time I saw her she had just come back from the vet and was still not feeding very well. But she ventured into the garden, found  a sunny spot, and with her eyes closed and her whiskers whirring, she picked up scents and movements in the air. She was a gentle, loving cat, timid with people she didn’t know very well, including me. Her ginger fur hung loosely from her body as she had lost a lot of weight but she was at peace and looked contented and happy. M will be choosing a shrub or a plant in her memory and I will be planting and tending it. I look forward to that.