{"id":134566,"date":"2023-02-19T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T08:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-small-or-large-offer-a-merciful-sense-of-calm\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T08:28:37","slug":"gardens-small-or-large-offer-a-merciful-sense-of-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-small-or-large-offer-a-merciful-sense-of-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardens small or large offer a merciful sense of calm"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nEven a tiny terrarium offers comfort in this uncertain worldAs a botanist who studies our cultural relationship with plants, I am forever fascinated with what draws people to gardening. Much like agriculture, we now know that ornamental horticulture independently evolved many centuries ago in unconnected cultures all over the world \u2013 a seemingly universal human desire coded into our cultural DNA.While communing with the natural world might seem like an obvious motivation, and undoubtedly it is a key part of the allure, in reality gardens are anything but natural. If they were, we\u2019d abandon any attempts at design, planting or care and watch how walls of weeds slowly gave way to thickets of scrub. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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