ROOTS

Roots balance trees.

Like keels.

You never see carrots flying round the garden in a gale!

After the hurricane, fallen trees became climbing frames.
(Until they were cleared away.)We could see them - immense, sideways mirrors of branches.

Exposed Beech roots are like tough lace.
Roses grow shallow.

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Trees on Pluto are sort of broad-trunked broad beans - or tall, tall clover - with nodules in their roots.

(For fixing nitrogen.)

Plants and bushes thrive in their shade.
(They don't mind that it's dry.)
(Earth's different.)

For Tomorrow