{"id":18344,"date":"2016-07-02T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/an-overgrown-garden-isnt-always-a-neglected-one-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2016-07-02T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T10:12:40","slug":"an-overgrown-garden-isnt-always-a-neglected-one-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/an-overgrown-garden-isnt-always-a-neglected-one-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"An overgrown garden isn\u2019t always a neglected one | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAlys Fowler on the joys of leaving your plot to its own devicesMy mother and I should probably swap gardens. My small back garden would be ideal for her and her large, sprawling one is the stuff of my dreams. I can hear her bristling at the very thought, but the truth is, her garden has become too big for her and I have outgrown mine.This isn\u2019t going to happen for many reasons but,\u00a0seeing as I can\u2019t take over her garden, what to\u00a0do with one that is slowly taking charge of\u00a0itself? First off, acknowledge that the garden doesn\u2019t belong to you; you belong to it. And that the\u00a0garden is not going to pot if you don\u2019t weed it\u00a0or cut the grass \u2013 rather, you are, and that\u2019s OK. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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