Winny’s Garden

On the edge of town was a small cottage where Winnie lived with her parents and her little brother, Dave. They had just moved in and there was a lot of work to do. Papa worked with a law firm in the village and Mummy had to get everything done in the house to make things comfortable. Davy was very small and toddled around happily.
Winnie decided to make the garden her special place. She loved flowers and enjoyed doing all the digging and weeding and planting. Papa got her lots of seeds and also some flower pots.
She dug flower beds along the path to the front door and then all along the walls of the cottage. Then she began planting the seeds. She planted sweet peas along the walls and hollyhocks along the fence. Then there were beds of sunflowers, dahlias, poppies, larkspur, dogflowers, daisies and phlox. One bed outside the house was for daffodils. Roses went into the pots. A creeper of pink roses was planted near the front door.

Winnie watered the beds and weeded them, turning over the soil and putting in manure once the seedlings started coming out. She raked the leaves and put them in a wheel-barrow for Papa’s compost pit. She had to make sure that Davy didn’t go pottering in the beds! “There would be a riot of colours once all the flowers began to bloom,” she thought happily.
The blooms started to come out. Then a funny thing happened. When Winnie came out to look at her flowers, she would find one poppy that was red, one white, one pink. The sunflowers were blue! The sweet peas that had been pink and mauve the day before were bright red!
She sat at her window and kept a watch that night. When all was silent and everyone was asleep, she saw something stirring in the bed where the sunflowers were. A troop of elves came out, each carrying a tin of paint and a brush. They spread out into different flower beds. They all got busy painting the flowers.

Winnie watched silently, in amazement. “So this is how all the flowers are getting their colours!” she thought, “I must thank them!”
She had a plan for the next night. After dinner, she left a few things in the sunflower bed. There were a cake, some jelly, a bowl of marmalade and tiny sandwiches. Then, as she watched from her window, the elves came out again and were overjoyed with their feast!

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