{"id":104095,"date":"2019-02-17T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-joy-of-growing-extinct-plants\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T11:07:08","slug":"the-joy-of-growing-extinct-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-joy-of-growing-extinct-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"The joy of growing extinct plants"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSome plants can no longer survive in the wild, but hand-pollinated seeds allow them to live on in your home patchThere is something fascinatingly weird about us gardeners. For as much as horticulture is all about the therapeutic art of nurturing and caring for plants, it is also often just as much about the feverish need to amass collections of them.From the 19th-century oligarchs who would send teams of plant hunters to scour the earth for the undiscovered to 21st-century urban flat dwellers like me who will spend hours (and far too much money) on internet auction sites and rare plant markets to track down elusive varieties, this pursuit of rarity seems for many an intrinsic part of what it is to be a gardener. All too often, however, this desire can put pressure on wild populations, as plants are over-collected to fuel this insatiable demand. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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