{"id":20664,"date":"2016-07-24T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-why-cacti-make-cool-companions\/"},"modified":"2016-07-24T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T05:01:58","slug":"gardens-why-cacti-make-cool-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-why-cacti-make-cool-companions\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardens: why cacti make cool companions"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCacti are surprisingly tolerant of colder climates \u2013 like Britain\u2019s \u2013 as long as you follow the golden rules\u2026Think of cacti and images of warm, sunny holidays and balmy deserts come to mind, so it may come as a surprise to learn that a huge range of this family are also astonishingly cold tolerant. In locations from Chile to southern Canada, many cactus species have evolved to shrug off positively Arctic blasts of less than -30C (the UK record low is -27C), and indeed in Britain there are several impressive examples of outdoor cacti.If you fancy trying a horticultural gamble this summer, you could have your own outdoor cactus garden anywhere in Britain by following these three golden rules\u2026 Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Cacti are surprisingly tolerant of colder climates \u2013 like Britain\u2019s \u2013 as long as you...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-5ni","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":102498,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-keep-cacti-happy\/","url_meta":{"origin":20664,"position":0},"title":"How to keep cacti happy","date":"December 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Get the light and watering right, and a cactus will be your best friendThe meteoric rise in popularity of cacti and succulents shows no sign of abating. 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