{"id":148742,"date":"2025-01-10T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/im-not-one-for-new-years-resolutions-except-when-it-comes-to-my-garden\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T18:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T11:53:24","slug":"im-not-one-for-new-years-resolutions-except-when-it-comes-to-my-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/im-not-one-for-new-years-resolutions-except-when-it-comes-to-my-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not one for new year\u2019s resolutions \u2013 except when it comes to my garden"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith a new year comes new plans, but don\u2019t forget to relax in and enjoy your garden at this time of year, tooI don\u2019t love gardening to-do lists \u2013 they make it feel too much like work \u2013 but I do think there\u2019s value in thinking about what you\u2019d like to do with your garden this year. Perhaps you haven\u2019t been out in it for weeks, or maybe just for a few minutes here and there, to add the sprout leaves to the compost bin. But while January might be the sleepiest time in the garden \u2013 perhaps a snowdrop swelling somewhere, but otherwise fallen leaves and perennials tucked well beneath the earth \u2013 it\u2019s still the start of\u00a0a new year.I have never been a huge one for new year resolutions, but I make gentle exceptions for my garden. Gardening is a practice that exists in the temporal space of hope. At this time of year, we imagine warmer days and flick through seed catalogues (if you want something more substantial, I\u00a0recommend Katharine S White\u2019s Onward and Upward in the Garden, a\u00a0collection of the New Yorker fiction\u00a0editor\u2019s columns reviewing 1950s seed catalogues). The whole horticultural year unfurls before us: what will we do with it? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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