Fifteen gentle stories about growing things: a first row of seeds, a cat who will not cross the threshold, a stag at a still pool, peas eaten warm from the pod, an evening round with the watering can. Each story is a little slower, and a little softer, than the one before. By the final tale you're no longer following a narrative, just resting in the garden while the light goes.
The stories
- 1:00 The Tomato Plant on the Sunlit Balcony 12 min
- 13:51 The Woman Who Spoke to Her Plants 12 min
- 27:27 Four Paces: The Cat Who Came at Dusk 12 min
- 41:05 The Three Newspapers 11 min
- 53:46 The Stag Who Learned to Thank His Legs 13 min
- 1:08:15 The Garden That Taught Her to Wait 12 min
- 1:21:52 The Milk Pail and the Wildflower Path 11 min
- 1:34:18 The Small Ceremony of Ordinary Evenings 14 min
- 1:49:17 The Glade With No Ceiling 11 min
- 2:01:18 The Blue Hour in the Long Grass 14 min
- 2:16:56 The Tutor Above the Station 12 min
- 2:29:53 The Meadow That Held the Light 11 min
- 2:42:22 The Quiet Hour Before the House Wakes 13 min
- 2:56:15 The Garden That Was Already Enough 12 min
- 3:09:04 The Amber Hour 12 min
Retold from
- Aesop's Fables, translated by V. S. Vernon Jones
- The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit