{"id":103394,"date":"2019-01-27T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-ive-turned-my-house-into-a-home-for-rescued-plants\/"},"modified":"2019-01-27T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T09:03:58","slug":"why-ive-turned-my-house-into-a-home-for-rescued-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-ive-turned-my-house-into-a-home-for-rescued-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019ve turned my house into a home for rescued plants"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI like to feel that I\u2019m rescuing them, but maybe it\u2019s the other way aroundThere\u2019s a greenhouse at the back of my local garden centre where they keep the big houseplants and each one is carefully labelled: \u201cPlant\u201d. I buy one at a time to avoid ongoing domestic dispute and they collect greenly in my house under varying levels of care. Varying levels of care, but infinite love, love I learned from my parents\u2019 relationship with a plant that lives at the top of their stairs which they call the \u201cmoon flower\u201d. I\u2019ve identified it online as a night-blooming cereus \u2013 further, an Epiphyllum oxypetalum, and my sister and I receive texts alerting us to news of an opening bud. My parents will have woken to a smell, sickly but good, like someone\u2019s caramelising a memory, and they will tell us to be round at dusk. Because then we can stand on the stairs and watch it open, actually watch the petals creak open, until it is there basking in the moonlight, that smell now quite raw and conquering. By morning the flower will have died, and hang from a leaf like a washed up squid.When I moved house, my dad gave me a cutting, which now stands dwarfed by a giant version I found in the garden centre bin. But much as I love the garden centre with its jolly disregard for potted things, my preferred way to acquire new plants is via adoption. It\u2019s a similar feeling I get on my weekly tour of the local charity shops \u2013 the cancer one is good for books, the hospice one is better for furniture, and the one raising funds for sick children is excellent for pottery. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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