When the flaxes are flowering at Longbush Cottage, Luke Gardner and Ben Quay like to sit in their garden, with a glass of wine, and “watch the tui swoop in”. There’s a pond “chocka with tadpoles at the moment -thousands and thousands of them,” says Luke, which will soon become a chorus of frogs. “Sometimes it’s quite loud, to the point that our neighbour texted me and said, ‘I think you need to turn the frogs down, I can’t think!’” But the frogs aren’t just aural garden ornaments, they’re useful too, eating “every slug and snail” in their path.
展开▼
