Lynda Hallinan11:12, Apr 30 2021
Sally Tagg/Haven
Lynda Hallinan grows flowers that are both decorative and delicious and finds theyâre also annoyingly tempting to her ravenous Labrador.
This story was published on Thrive. You are what you eat, yet no one could accuse our lockdown Labrador puppy, Cricket, of being a delicate wee flower. There’s nothing he hasn’t tried to eat, from all of my shoes to the kids’ arsenal of Nerf gun ammunition, vintage blankets, our dining table’s legs and an entire loaf of freshly baked sourdough. Left unattended in the garden, he is a canine composter. He’s sharpened his teeth on my antique seed dibber, chomped through a bag of seed potatoes, eaten the fingers off most of my gardening gloves and filled his garbage guts with grass clippings (he seems to think our ride-on lawn mower is some sort of food truck).