Cowie does exactly that with a comforting, if rotting, Victorian complete with flowers and overgrown grass.

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The management had recently overhauled the space, taking out the grass and flowers that had required watering and replacing them with decorative pebbles.

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Then allergy sufferers will be able to frolic in the flowers and roll in the grass and eat peanuts just like everyone else.

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Any colourful flowers are good, and the caterpillars of a lot of British butterflies are grass eaters - so allowing native species of grass to grow a bit longer in the summer will help.

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But this Saturday, we all later agreed, was the first day of summer: the smell of plowed fields and first-cut grass, the river flushed by rains, its banks covered with ferns and May apples and early wild flowers, dame's rocket and white trillium.

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