A few years ago, my dad (or more likely, mum) decided it was time to revamp our backyard. The first task was to re-plant some of the gum trees we had put in the year before on the other side, with the goal of creating a backyard cricket pitch flanked on either side by trees.
After spending a long, hot day in the Sydney summer sun, eventually we managed to re-plant the trees where we had four on either side of the backyard, along with planting some seeds around the old and new trees.
As time passed, however, I noticed that the seeds we planted around the un-replanted trees eventually grew into flowers within a few weeks, whereas we had to wait until next March for the seeds around the re-planted trees to bloom as flowers.
Not being able to understand how this happened, I simply concluded that it had to have something to do with the up-rooted trees and how it takes time for the ground around them to return to a state where it can support the growth of more plants.
Like so many metaphors, this translates into life and sports. We ...
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