{"id":129967,"date":"2022-09-26T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T04:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-drought-has-turned-the-garden-into-a-wasteland\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T04:48:39","slug":"country-diary-drought-has-turned-the-garden-into-a-wasteland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-drought-has-turned-the-garden-into-a-wasteland\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: Drought has turned the garden into a wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nStoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: It feels like sitting in a crypt \u2013 I am surrounded by the skeletons of dried perennialsI try not to make excuses so I\u2019m just going to tell the truth: everything in my garden is dead. The drought was fierce and I was sick, distracted. I couldn\u2019t bear to look at it but I\u2019m trying to look now.It feels like sitting in a crypt. I\u2019ve pulled up a damp chair and I am surrounded by skeletons, the limbs of my perennials dried, bent and snapped. The hydrangea\u2019s flowers have turned to ghostly brown lace too soon, drooping leaves turned almost black like prayer flags. There is copper, rust and blood; piles of viburnum leaves dropped early in fright. The penstemon looks as if it has been set alight then frozen, its orange flames still and hellish. When the rains finally came, too late, the parched snails came out of hiding and ate everything that was left. Talk about overkill. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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