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    A Little Help from Friends
    A Little Help from Friends
    A Little Help from Friends
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    A Little Help from Friends

    By Linda Jordan

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    Jamie’s on a fast track to create the perfect garden for her friend’s wedding. A garden that will leave the plant geeks gasping with amazement and secure her place as an innovator in garden design. But there’s something or someone in the garden who keeps changing her work. And she’s running out of time.
    A ‘Garden Magic’ Story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateJun 9, 2015
    ISBN9781311653734
    A Little Help from Friends
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    Linda Jordan

    Linda Jordan writes fascinating characters, visionary worlds, and imaginative fiction. She creates both long and short fiction, serious and silly. She believes in the power of healing and transformation, and many of her stories follow those themes.In a previous lifetime, Linda coordinated the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop as well as the Reading Series. She spent four years as Chair of the Board of Directors during Clarion West’s formative period. She’s also worked as a travel agent, a baker, and a pond plant/fish sales person, you know, the sort of things one does as a writer.Currently, she’s the Programming Director for the Writers Cooperative of the Pacific Northwest.Linda now lives in the rainy wilds of Washington state with her husband, daughter, four cats, a cluster of Koi and an infinite number of slugs and snails.

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      A Little Help from Friends - Linda Jordan

      A Little Help from Friends

      by

      Linda Jordan

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      A Little Help from Friends

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      A Little Help from Friends

      Jamie Taylor stood at the top of the mound of freshly laid rich soil. She was finally planting her own garden. At forty years old, she was a homeowner. After two decades of designing and planting other people’s gardens, now was her turn.

      She bent over and grabbed the gnarly trunk of the six foot tall Weigela with her gloved hands, holding the black pot between her rubber boots. She pulled, twisting the shrub. That sucker was stuck. Letting go of the trunk, she picked her pruners up and tried to make a cut down the side of the pot, but the bloody plastic was too thick. She needed something sharper. Or bigger.

      She straightened, feeling the ache in her back. Looking around she caught the early scent of Indian Plum. The lovely pendulous white blooms of the native plant smelled like cat pee.

      Damn!

      She didn’t have time to move this slowly. Only one more day off this week. And too much to do out here.

      But the Weigela had been too cool to resist. It sat around the nursery all last winter, long past its freshness date, so John had marked it to half price. He hadn’t wanted to repot it again. She bought it, thrilled to have yet another mature plant for her new garden.

      She gazed around at the two acres of near empty garden beds. Taking her gloves off, she stuck them in her jean’s pocket and rubbed her hands over face, wiping some of the sweat and dirt off.

      She had two and a half months to plant everything in an attempt to create a garden that looked like it had been around for more than one season. Her closest friend was getting married here. And luminaries of the gardening world, local and worldwide would be attending. It was Jamie’s chance to show off her design abilities.

      But it was more than that.

      She wanted to prove her worth as a gardener.

      Sure, she’d hired out the hardscaping, but the designing, planting, pruning, mulching and watering was all on her. What she hadn’t planned on was that two acres was a full time job for two people. And she already had a

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