Rootbound — Flat No.14, Page 8
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Fern walks the long straight main aisle of the garden at night. Between rows of pleached lime trees the raked gravel runs away forty metres, and low flat ledger stones line the east edge, lichen-grown. Warm lamps on wooden posts stand every ten metres. Fern stops at one low stone and reads.
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Fern walks the long straight main aisle between pleached lime trees at night, a raked gravel path running forty metres with low lichen-grown ledger stones along the east edge; warm lamps stand every ten metres. She stops at one low stone.
About this chapter
The ghost of Opal Renwick, the garden first head gardener who died in Glasshouse 03, asks Fern for one last favour tied to a dried blue orchid she gave away in 1957. Fern search of the ledger, a grave, and an old love letter leads to Ida Thorpe, who kept the pressed blue flower all her life. When Fern shows Opal that the promise was kept, the ghost passes on, leaving a single living orchid. A cozy, melancholy murder-free mystery.