{"id":146520,"date":"2024-07-24T22:09:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-a-plant-identification-app-helped-me-find-happiness-and-satisfaction\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:28:47","slug":"how-a-plant-identification-app-helped-me-find-happiness-and-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-a-plant-identification-app-helped-me-find-happiness-and-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"How a plant identification app helped me find happiness and satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI\u2019m no expert, but knowing my neighborhood\u2019s trees and flowers by name makes me feel groundedEighteen months ago, I adopted a dog. Now I\u2019m out on the streets of Brooklyn with my hound mix for at least an hour a day, strolling and wrestling discarded chicken bones from her jaws. You notice a lot when you visit the same few blocks over and over: which avenues are the quietest, or when the rusty scaffolding around a nearby building vanishes overnight.Most of all, I love to admire neighborhood greenery. I\u2019m an adoring fan of the tulips, peonies and dogwood flowers that burst forth in the spring. Yet I quickly realized how limited my plant vocabulary was. Yes, I knew that was a silver birch, because of its papery bark. But what was that taller tree, glossy and looming, or that pale shrub with tiny, ornate leaves? I grew up in Australia, where the vegetation is pretty different from that of the US north-east, and I really hadn\u2019t made an effort to learn about the locals. It felt disrespectful, to say the least. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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