Miss Emma's Wild Garden
by Anna Grossnickle Hines
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00:00Miss Emma's Wild Garden, by Emma Gross-Nickel-Hines.
00:15Your garden is wild Miss Emma not all in rows like my papa's, Chloe said.
00:19I like it wild, said Miss Emma.
00:22I like to let things grow any crazy way they want.
00:25Wild and crazy, Chloe agreed.
00:27I like to grow that way too.
00:29Creatures in your garden Miss Emma.
00:31Oh my, lots of things, shooting stars, foam flowers, wild blue flocks and bleeding hearts.
00:37And violets and bluebells and dandelions, Chloe added.
00:41My papa doesn't like dandelions but I do, Miss Emma nodded.
00:45So do I child, they're like little golden sunshines.
00:48What else Miss Emma, do you have wild creatures in your garden?
00:52Indeed I do, I have deer that eat the flower buds and rabbits nibbling the wild ginger.
00:58What else do you have?
00:59A woodchuck and her baby come to eat the sweet sicily and violets, Miss Emma said.
01:04Very hungry rascals.
01:06I like the baby one, can I pet it?
01:09Chloe asked.
01:10No no, it's too wild, too bad.
01:13What else do you have in your garden?
01:14Well, let's see.
01:16There's a cardinal nesting in the forsythia bush, Miss Emma said.
01:20Don't disturb her now.
01:21I won't, Chloe promised.
01:24The papa cardinal is kissing her.
01:26He's giving her seeds to eat, said Miss Emma.
01:29I like that, Chloe said.
01:31He's a nice papa cardinal.
01:33What else is in your garden?
01:34Here's a skink sunning on a rock, a young one with a bright blue tail.
01:38Blue like my shirt, said Chloe.
01:41What else Miss Emma?
01:42There's a nuthatch on the trunk of that maple tree and up higher a squirrel is scolding.
01:46See, they're upside down.
01:48No, they aren't, Chloe said.
01:51They re the same as me.
01:52You're the upside down one Miss Emma.
01:55What else is in your garden?
01:56Oh, a toad hides in the forget-me-nots beside the creek and lots of earthworms live in the
02:01soil.
02:02They eat all the rotting leaves.
02:04And what else?
02:05Butterflies and bees sip the nectar from the blossoms.
02:08And what else?
02:09Why else child?
02:10You make me tired with your what else's, Miss Emma said.
02:14I don't know what else.
02:15But there's one more thing, Chloe said.
02:18One more wild creature in your garden.
02:20Then suppose you tell me, Miss Emma said.
02:23You just tell me what else is in my garden.
02:25Me.
02:26Chloe said.
02:27I am in your garden.
02:28Indeed you are child, Miss Emma agreed.
02:31You are the best wild creature in my wild crazy garden.
02:34For grandma whose wonderful garden grew in rows.
02:37The end.