Last week, I was carrying out an end-of-year garden tidy-up, and had almost finished for the day, when Mrs Client asked me, very tentatively, if I'd be prepared to do some planting, for her.
Nothing unusual about that: I plant things all the time, it is rather part and parcel of being a gardener... so of course I said yes, no problem, and I was handed a boxful of packs marked Tulip bulbs, cultivar “Cherry Delight”:
They are rather delightfully red, aren't they?
So why was the Client asking me, in such an apologetic way, if I would plant them? I found out when I opened the box.....
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