{"id":15602,"date":"2016-06-06T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T08:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/know-something-about-plants-share-it-around\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T08:44:45","slug":"know-something-about-plants-share-it-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/know-something-about-plants-share-it-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Know something about plants? Share it around"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPlants that were once commonly cultivated in the UK have fallen out of favour, and the knowledge of how to grow them is lost. Yet those snippets of information that could change the worldShe screamed at me from across my own garden, \u201cRestios are not grasses, they are their own unique family and you shouldn\u2019t grow them like grasses either!\u201d I felt so uncomfortable in my own skin and my own garden, I shall never, ever, forget it. Pauline, in her time, had been well known and respected for her work with the monocotyledons of South Africa. Her knowledge, gained through hard work on the subject, remained second to none until she passed away just before Christmas last year. Through papers written in her youth and her sometimes abrasive, unswerving accuracy of instruction later in life, there are many horticulturists and botanists out there who, like me, are so much better at what we do because of her. Pauline shared her knowledge freely and only goodness would help you if you didn\u2019t listen. That little bit of knowledge she shared that day helped me to better grow a family of plants I would otherwise have treated quite differently. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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