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Updated: May 14, 2025
The cuckoo is what I'm listening for all through November. I heard it in April this year." I looked round to see that nobody was within earshot. "I haven't heard it yet," I confessed. "It wasn't really so much to see the lobretias as to hear the cuckoo that I came to have tea with you. I feel just the same about it; it's the beginning of everything.
But I always think of it as Miss Middleton's garden, particularly when the afternoons are hot and I see nothing but grimy bricks out of my window. She knows all the flowers by name, which seems to me rather remarkable. "I have come," I announced, feeling that some excuse was necessary, "to see the lobretias; don't say that they are out. I mean, of course, do say that they are out."
And I said to myself, 'Miss Middleton may not have a first-rate show of lobretias, because possibly it is an unfavourable soil for them, or they may not fit in with the colour scheme; but she does know what is essential to a proper garden, and she'll have a cuckoo." "Yes, we do ourselves very well," said Miss Middleton confidently.
We can't all have cuckoos any more than we can all have lobretias. I must come again in August, when one of the pioneers may have struggled here. Of course in Hampshire " "CUCK-OO," said somebody from the apple tree. "There!" cried Miss Middleton. "That's much better," I said. "Now make it come from the laburnum, Lieutenant." "I'm not doing it, really!" she said. "At least only the first time."
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