{"id":23303,"date":"2016-08-18T21:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-gentle-magic-of-gardening-where-human-art-and-natures-anarchy-meet-giles-fraser-loose-canon\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T22:10:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T15:10:24","slug":"the-gentle-magic-of-gardening-where-human-art-and-natures-anarchy-meet-giles-fraser-loose-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-gentle-magic-of-gardening-where-human-art-and-natures-anarchy-meet-giles-fraser-loose-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"The gentle magic of gardening, where human art and nature\u2019s anarchy meet | Giles Fraser: Loose canon"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMy younger self would have scoffed at gardening as bourgeois. But as a place\u00a0of healing for the mind and repair for the soul, I\u2019ve found nowhere betterThe vicarage garden has long been neglected, home to an impenetrable thicket of bindweed, bramble and disgusting plastic rubbish smuggled in by those shrieking foxes. This year the resistance began. Not knowing the first thing about gardens, and driven by little more than shame at the state it\u2019s got into, I set about one small corner, hacking my way through ferocious weeds and thorns, them viciously biting back. A few months into this war of the roses and my defiantly urban soul has been strangely touched by the gentle magic of gardening. I am now watering, tending, watching; childishly excited about how my tomatoes are getting on. The other day I even built my\u00a0own compost heap.For as long as I can remember, I have thought of the garden as little more than a flat parcel of land outside the back door, where the dog has a wee; no more interesting than the venue for an occasional BBQ and football kickabout. Certainly of no particular intellectual or moral interest. Which was pretty stupid of me \u2013 especially given that the Bible gives a whopping big clue that moral knowledge is first discovered among the apple trees of that first legendary garden, expulsion from which marked the beginning of the great salvation drama of Judao-Christianity. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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