{"id":134473,"date":"2023-02-12T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T08:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/people-often-ask-me-what-do-you-like-so-much-about-plants\/"},"modified":"2023-02-12T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T08:30:01","slug":"people-often-ask-me-what-do-you-like-so-much-about-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/people-often-ask-me-what-do-you-like-so-much-about-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"People often ask me, what do you like so much about plants?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTo me, the people who don\u2019t love plants are the strange ones. Plants hold the secret to life itselfThere\u2019s a question I get asked all the time. And when I say all the time, I mean it\u2019s literally without fail the very first question I get asked in any press interview, on any podcast, by every cab driver and every stranger in the pub, as soon as they find out what I do: \u201cSo, what made you first interested in plants?\u201d\u201cDid you have a really influential teacher in school? Does it run in your family? Seriously, what on earth happened to you?\u201d I used to feel this huge pressure, particularly when I was younger \u2013 especially in my 20s \u2013 to make up some kind of superhero origin story. \u201cWell, my grandma in Borneo used to take me around her garden\u2026\u201d (As she did, with all my many cousins, none of whom really care about plants now.) \u201cI guess, growing up in the tropics meant I was physically around more plants as a kid, so there was more chance to become fascinated.\u201d (Albeit in Singapore: a country better known back in the 1980s and 1990s for its hermetically sealed, air-conditioned shopping malls.) Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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