{"id":20330,"date":"2016-07-20T21:28:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/top-10-books-about-gardens\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T21:39:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:39:27","slug":"top-10-books-about-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/top-10-books-about-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 books about gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom theatres of social snobbery to fiery manifestos for rewilding, these volumes show that gardening can be sexy, scary and sometimes scandalousThe problem with most garden books is that they are written by gardeners. Gardeners have a habit of filling pages and pages with homework-sounding words such as rhizosphere and loamy and pH, which isn\u2019t even a word. It all sounds as exciting as algebra.The other problem with garden books is that so many of them blabber on about an idea of nature that came into fashion in the time of hoop skirts and whalebone corsets. I\u2019m talking about the ideology of the famed 19th-century conservationist John Muir, who wrote about wilderness as a place \u201cto play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the soul\u201d. I want to read about this fey \u201csacred space\u201d concept of nature about as much as I want to slap on a lace bonnet and ride side-saddle. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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