This song started with the watery and puddly days playing games in the garden when our son was very small. He just loved to water the plants - and everything else too! I would try and do odd jobs like pruning the small hedge in our front garden, or weeding the herb patch.
I started imagining a scenario where all the tools came to life when the kids were in charge of a gardening day. Some of them would be very bossy, and some of them would be very mischievous, and the boss of all them was the lawnmower that the daisies were scared of, and in this imaginary story, I thought perhaps the tools and the kids could all save a patch of daisies from the mower, like a metaphor for the wildness of childhood, compared to the rules and structure of adulthood.
There is a whole movement towards re-wilding suburban lawns, as it’s much better for biodiversity for lawn areas to have a multitude of species growing through them rather than monoculture lawns that have been heavily dosed with chemical weedkillers and artificial fertilisers. Save the daisies my friends!
