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Cecil Snapdragon was a gardener of extraordinary dedication. He nurtured his tomatoes with opera music, read poetry to his petunias, and had even taught his prize-winning zucchini to roll over on command. But his newest project was his most ambitious yet: the Great Giggle Garden.

Cecil believed that plants were happier if they were amused. So, he’d planted a special patch and rigged it with all sorts of contraptions designed to elicit botanical belly laughs. There were tiny tickling feathers attached to gentle robotic arms, miniature stages where puppet shows were performed for the sunflowers, and even a system that played surprisingly silly knock-knock jokes through tiny speakers hidden amongst the leaves.

At first, nothing happened. The plants just swayed gently in the breeze, seemingly unimpressed. Cecil started to worry that his grand experiment was a flop.

Then, one sunny morning, he heard it. A faint, rustling sound that almost sounded like…laughter. He crept closer to the Giggle Garden and peered through the foliage.

The roses were quivering, their petals shaking as if they couldn’t contain themselves. The daisies were bobbing up and down with such enthusiasm that their heads nearly fell off. Even the usually stoic cabbages seemed to be vibrating with silent amusement.

Cecil watched in amazement as a particularly enthusiastic joke about a forgetful farmer caused a whole row of beans to practically double over. The air was filled with the gentle rustling and swaying of happy, giggling greenery.

From that day on, Cecil’s Giggle Garden was the talk of the town. People would come from miles around just to listen to the happy sounds of the plants. And Cecil? He just smiled, knowing that he had created the silliest, and most successful, garden in the world.