The Magic Garden

In the magic garden, the flowers grew all year round and the sun shone all day. There were so many flowers in the magic garden that there was hardly enough room for the grass, which was quite lucky because therefore, the grass never needed cutting. The magic garden had the longest path ... and the most tasty vegetables you could imagine. It rained only when the flowers needed watering and the worms in the magic garden were the happiest woms you could ever hope to meet - what made the worms in the magic garden so happy that there were no hungry birds to peck them, because the birds in the magic garden were never hungry. The birds in the magic garden sang the sweetest bird song imaginable ... never a wrong note, never out of tune. And there were of course, hundreds of butterflies of all different shapes and sizes. When the wind blew in the magic garden, the weather never turned cold. In winter, there was snow, of course, great for snowballs and before long, even the snowmen turned magic. It was easy to see how magic the snowmen became because they grew legs, got up and danced around the magic garden. The fish in the magic pond in the magic garden were so magic that not only could they swim, but they could, talk and dance, too - the frogs so magic that they could leap over the fence. When they did, they landed back down in the muddy waters with a big, magic "SPLASH !". Magic. © Jacqueline Richards 2005