{"id":125555,"date":"2022-03-19T01:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/long-live-the-humble-weed-letters\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T01:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:50:38","slug":"long-live-the-humble-weed-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/long-live-the-humble-weed-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Long live the humble weed | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRev Roman and Kate Kukiewicz have come to respect and admire the way that soil just seems to love weeds and helps them to thriveWe were delighted to read Alys Fowler\u2019s piece (How I learned to love weeds \u2013 and why you should, too, 16 March). On our allotment and in our garden, we have learned to see these plants not as the relentless enemies of old, but to respect and admire the way that the soil just seems to love them and helps them to thrive. In the gardening club we run at our local school, we always showed them in a \u201cknow your enemy\u201d kind of way, but this has turned into a celebration of their beauty and vitality.That reverend gentleman Gerard Manley Hopkins got this so right in his poem Inversnaid: \u201cWhat would the world be, once bereft \/ Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, \/ O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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