{"id":126835,"date":"2022-05-25T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/guerrilla-gardening-took-me-back-to-my-roots-and-to-the-chelsea-flower-show-tashan-hayden-smith\/"},"modified":"2022-05-25T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:09:56","slug":"guerrilla-gardening-took-me-back-to-my-roots-and-to-the-chelsea-flower-show-tashan-hayden-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/guerrilla-gardening-took-me-back-to-my-roots-and-to-the-chelsea-flower-show-tashan-hayden-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerrilla gardening took me back to my roots \u2013 and to the Chelsea flower show | Tashan Hayden-Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOur Hands Off Mangrove garden celebrates anti-racism and the power of communities coming together after GrenfellFive years ago, it would have been more likely that I\u2019d be turning out for Chelsea Football Club than attending the RHS Chelsea flower show, let alone building a garden there. As a promising young footballer, horticulture was not part of my vocabulary; pittosporum would have sounded more like a potion than a plant, and I remember feeling extremely offended when someone called me a guerrilla gardener \u2013 though it was quickly explained to me that I was not being likened to a hairy mammal in the wild.Nonetheless, this week the organisation Grow2Know and I are showing our first garden at the Chelsea flower show. As a relatively new gardener, I\u2019ve experienced just how magical it can be. Yet I can\u2019t help but feel uncomfortable with its narrative and direction. The five-day festival on the banks of the Thames \u2013 attended by royals, crowded with floral marquees, and where a glass of Pimm\u2019s costs \u00a37.80 \u2013 has never felt like it was meant for the likes of me. Despite living just 10 minutes down the road, the show feels like a completely different world to the one where I grew up.Tayshan Hayden-Smith is the founder of Grow2Know and a former footballer Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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