{"id":116471,"date":"2020-05-18T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-these-trees-have-become-part-of-the-family\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:10:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:10:49","slug":"country-diary-these-trees-have-become-part-of-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-these-trees-have-become-part-of-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: these trees have become part of the family"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nStamford, Lincolnshire: We share our garden with this elderly couple and I breathe a sigh of relief when they burst into leafI know these two well. There they stand, side by side, rain or shine \u2013 stoic through the seasons, resolutely inseparable. We share a garden and, as I would any elderly couple, I check on them, watch them for change \u2013 and trouble myself by imagining what life would be like if we lost them.Trees do that when you have them close. They become a part of your family. Beneath the horse chestnut, mine have camped, collected conkers, made leaf piles tall enough to disappear into. We\u2019ve hugged it, climbed it, studied it, sometimes worriedly. I breathe a sigh of relief when the horse chestnut bursts into leaf every March, afflicted as it is with a leaf-mining moth \u2013 nothing more serious, not yet \u2013 that turns its leaves brown earlier every year. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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