{"id":105075,"date":"2019-03-16T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-garden-if-youre-renting-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2019-03-16T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T11:03:43","slug":"how-to-make-the-most-of-your-garden-if-youre-renting-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-garden-if-youre-renting-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make the most of your garden if you\u2019re renting | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nShort-term fixes to cheer up your space for summerTwo trees and a bare patch of earth. Not the most auspicious start, but a garden nonetheless. The true sadness of this space, though, is not the soon-to-be-cast shade or the weedy alkanet that\u2019s just about to pop up, it\u2019s that the person it belongs to has only six months left on the lease.Renting can be brutal if you start to fall in love with a place before you must move on \u2013 and that applies to gardens as much as homes. But there are some short-term fixes. If the garden is bathed in good light, not fighting for space with big tree roots, the answer would be simple: dig out the alkanet and buy every cheap packet of annual seeds that take your fancy, scattering the garden with poppies, cornflowers, calendula, corncockles and Queen Anne\u2019s Lace. Not everything will take, but plenty will; and just as the time comes to pack up and move on, the garden will be a riot of life \u2013 paying it forward not just for the next occupants but the bees and butterflies, too. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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