{"id":141384,"date":"2024-01-19T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-hardy-mimosa-tree-brings-a-blast-of-sunshine-to-a-chilly-garden\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T18:08:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:08:37","slug":"a-hardy-mimosa-tree-brings-a-blast-of-sunshine-to-a-chilly-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-hardy-mimosa-tree-brings-a-blast-of-sunshine-to-a-chilly-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A hardy mimosa tree brings a blast of sunshine to a chilly garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nBanish the winter blues with these joyous acacias, which are also good enough to eatI am still learning my way through the 72 micro-seasons that the Japanese use to navigate the year, but if I were to create a UK-centric version, it would have to feature a particularly beautiful mimosa tree exploding into bloom halfway up London\u2019s Kennington Road. I\u00a0admire it\u00a0from the bus, I admire it from the pavement, and I look out for it from several hundred metres back \u2013 a botanical light at the end of the tunnel, heralding longer days and\u00a0sunshine to come.Mimosa, as the taxonomy fans out\u00a0there will attest, is one of those erroneous common names for varieties of the acacia and over the past few years its popularity has exploded \u2013 like its fuzzy yellow pom-poms do in late January and early\u00a0February. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/jan\/19\/a-hardy-mimosa-tree-brings-a-blast-of-sunshine-to-a-chilly-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A hardy mimosa tree brings a blast of sunshine to a chilly garden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Banish the winter blues with these joyous acacias, which are also good enough to eatI&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-AMo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20858,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/four-sites-up-for-mortgagee-sale-as-developer-winds-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":141384,"position":0},"title":"Four sites up for mortgagee sale as developer winds up","date":"July 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Several landed homes have gone up for auction after the developer was unable to complete construction work. 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