{"id":146167,"date":"2024-07-12T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hollyhocks-the-spears-of-floral-trumpets-that-herald-high-summer\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T17:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:19:33","slug":"hollyhocks-the-spears-of-floral-trumpets-that-herald-high-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hollyhocks-the-spears-of-floral-trumpets-that-herald-high-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollyhocks: the spears of floral trumpets that herald high summer"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith their sweet-shop-hued flowers pointing skyward, these tenacious biennials are guaranteed to make you smileOne hot summer evening in 2020, my husband and I walked around our new neighbourhood. We had spent the day moving our belongings into our first home and, as I got to know the streets that I would eventually cycle down and push a buggy around, I pocketed the little husks of seed heads from hollyhocks that bowed over the pavements.This time of year \u2013 proper, full-blooded summer \u2013 always makes me think of hollyhocks. There\u2019s something puppyish in their appeal: undeniably pleasant, reaching several feet into blue skies, a spear of floral trumpets in sweet-shop hues. Around these parts (the Brixton\/Camberwell borders in south London) they decorate as many tree wells and forgotten scraps of land as they do front gardens. Each summer I photograph the most unlikely ones: last year a clutch sprung up around an\u00a0industrial-scale wheelie bin. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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