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THIS HAPPENED TO ME
Are There Fairies In My Garden?
Try communicating with your plants if you want to find whether they are magical
There is a school of thought, if I may generously call it that, claiming that plants are not sentient. Plants, they say, do not feel pain because they have no nervous system nor brain, and that they are devoid of plant cognition, that they do not have intelligence.
And as they are not living things — in the same way as animals we consume for food — there is no issue with eating plants.
Debunking or defending this plants-are-not-sentient point of contention is far from my mind.
I just want, instead, to share my personal experience with living beings in my garden.
Thirty months ago, in summer, my husband and I downsized to a bungalow. The garden — ornate, as he described it — is much larger than the garden in our previous home.
But, as I have just resigned from my 70-hours-a-week corporate job, I said I would help in gardening.