{"id":135666,"date":"2023-03-28T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-sister-has-become-a-great-gardener-and-i-have-never-felt-so-betrayed-zoe-williams\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:08:35","slug":"my-sister-has-become-a-great-gardener-and-i-have-never-felt-so-betrayed-zoe-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-sister-has-become-a-great-gardener-and-i-have-never-felt-so-betrayed-zoe-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"My sister has become a great gardener \u2013 and I have never felt so betrayed | Zoe Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI thought we had figured out years ago what kind of family we are: sowers of chaos. So when did she develop the patience for plants?I left a houseplant outside, not because I didn\u2019t know it was a houseplant \u2013 I had been told: \u201cThis will look nice in your kitchen\u201d \u2013 but because I assumed plants were like rabbits: whether you called them indoor or outdoor, they always prefer to be in the garden. It sickened over time without my noticing, to the point where I had to send a picture of it to my sister. She said: \u201cYes, this is a houseplant, which you are killing,\u201d then sent me an instructional video about how to rescue it.As I was watching it, I couldn\u2019t help noticing the timbre of her voice \u2013 Prue Leith levels of certainty and expertise with a Gregg Wallace can-do attitude \u2013 and the jungle of succulents on her table; tiny, creepy verdure bursting out of terraria \u2013 with the garden vying for attention through the window, full of \u2026 well, full of damn plants.Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist Continue reading…
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