{"id":123989,"date":"2021-12-27T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-person-who-got-me-through-2021-monty-don-inspired-my-new-obsessive-love-of-gardening\/"},"modified":"2021-12-27T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:05:11","slug":"the-person-who-got-me-through-2021-monty-don-inspired-my-new-obsessive-love-of-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-person-who-got-me-through-2021-monty-don-inspired-my-new-obsessive-love-of-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"The person who got me through 2021: Monty Don inspired my new, obsessive love of gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMy admiration for the Gardeners\u2019 World presenter took seed in lockdown and kept growing, thanks to his calming aura amid the mayhemYears ago I collected my new prescription glasses and walked home staring up like a person who had time-travelled from a pre-aeroplane era: I had no idea trees had individual leaves that could be seen from the ground. Before 2020, I had never noticed gardens, either: they were things that old people liked and neighbourhood dads mowed constantly. The garden attached to my flat became interesting only if a fox was standing in it. Then lockdown happened, and the people who usually kept the vines and trees from eating the building stopped coming. I tried to sort it out myself, pathetically Googling to figure out what was supposed to be there and what was an alien plant invasion. Somehow, I ended up watching Gardeners\u2019 World.I can\u2019t remember the first episode I saw, nor the first time I heard Monty Don talk about elephant garlic. I\u2019d never heard of a \u201csweet pea\u201d outside of Popeye cartoons, but I remember Monty telling us that their fragrance was intoxicating. I learned that flowers that looked like living spirographs were called dahlias and that tulips and daffodils, the welcome sights of spring and harbingers of warmth, only come alive if they\u2019ve been left out in the cold all winter. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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