{"id":124723,"date":"2022-02-26T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/green-planet-how-gardening-can-save-the-world\/"},"modified":"2022-02-26T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:05:44","slug":"green-planet-how-gardening-can-save-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/green-planet-how-gardening-can-save-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Green planet: how gardening can save the world"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom improving mental health and wellbeing to reducing pollution and flooding, plants hold the key to solving many of Earth\u2019s major problemsYou know, I am beginning to think I have a superpower, albeit one that only manifests itself in very specific circumstances. Whenever someone finds out what I do for a living, I can predict with unwavering certainty what their next question to me will be. Whether it\u2019s in an interview with the press, in chats with cabbies, or discussions with non-botany colleagues: \u201cSo, what first made you interested in plants?\u201d It\u2019s a question that is almost always accompanied with a look of incredulity, and heavy emphasis on the word \u201cplants\u201d. Then comes: \u201cDoes it run in your family?\u201d; \u201cDid you have a particularly inspirational teacher at school?\u201d; \u201cIs it a cultural thing in Asia?\u201dYet no one has ever asked my football-mad big brother what it was that first caused him to take an interest in sport. Trust me, I was curious, so I called him once to double-check. It\u2019s never instantly attributed to some kind of epiphany moment, mysterious external influence or somehow \u2013 ahem \u2013 stitched into his DNA. To me, the great irony is, I see this question precisely the other way round. I find plants so intrinsically fascinating, and have done since my earliest memories, the very idea that some people aren\u2019t as obsessed with every aspect of them as I am is totally bizarre. After all, as a plant scientist I know that billions of years of co-evolution alongside the botanical world has directly determined every aspect of our culture, civilisation, even our basic biology. In a very real sense, plants made us human. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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