{"id":100901,"date":"2018-11-04T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/meet-the-green-fingered-instagrammers\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T12:02:57","slug":"meet-the-green-fingered-instagrammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/meet-the-green-fingered-instagrammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the green-fingered Instagrammers"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAn amazing variety of plant pictures are posted onlineI am forever reading how Instagram is a bad thing for UK horticulture, especially from people who work in the industry. The highly staged photos, the impractical ideas, the shameless doctoring with filters: we\u2019re told these all conspire to give newbie gardeners a distorted view of horticultural reality, setting them up for failure. While in many cases these may be fair criticisms, on balance I feel that the enormous benefits of the \u2019gram in exposing us to new, international ideas far outweigh the negatives. The British gardening media generally lives in a place of sunlit nostalgia. Instagram changes all that Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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