ELF CUPS (SARCOSCYPHA AUSTRIACA)

‘By the ends of our lives our heads are full of extinct smell, the extinct smells of childhood. A rotting wooden fence long ago treated with creosote, smelling of tar and decayed earthy mushroom smell.’

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This extract is taken from The Star-Nosed Mole: An Anthology of Scented Garden Writing by garden designer and writer Isabel Bannerman, published by Pimpernel Press on 23 September, priced £20.