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Wednesday, 13 August 2025
In 2020, in the days of Covid-19, we were advised to pretty much stay home. I missed my garden visits, so Paul would drive me around to peer out the car window for flowers around town. The years have turned and I have learned when and where to expect something in flower.
Sometimes it is not flowers but furniture that is put out along the road for anyone to take away.
On Tuesday, 5 August I was driving on Ridge Road and saw something rather strange.
There were two white chairs with turquoise seats. Not for sale but up in a tree.
How peculiar. Perhaps it is magic. The chairs are ensorcelled and can climb.
Because on the other side of the lawn there are multiple chairs winding up
and into trees, four chairs into one tree and five different chairs
winding up into another tree. How odd. I asked several of my horticulturally
expert friends what they though Linnaeus might have named them. Tony Avent
said that, "Looks like Seataria truncata to me." I wonder if it is a vining form?
Two days later I happened to be driving on Ridge Road again. Of course I stopped
for another look. And noticed that today, Thursday, 7 August, the chairs had indeed
increased by two more chairs and spread even further up into the tree.
And then on Wednesday, 13 August, the chairs grew out some more.
From where there were two outlier chairs on the left, they're now on the right.
As I was standing there on the sidewalk, perusing the trees and chairs and changes
a piece of bark flaked off the tree and fell to the ground. Say what? A squirrel.
No. Don't believe a squirrel moved chairs. Say it was a raccoon and I'll believe that.
And one set of five chairs in a tree a week and a day ago are today neatly lined up on the lawn.
Clearly, it's magic
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