{"id":24787,"date":"2016-09-03T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/summertime-adventures-in-a-supermarket-car-park\/"},"modified":"2016-09-03T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T10:13:23","slug":"summertime-adventures-in-a-supermarket-car-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/summertime-adventures-in-a-supermarket-car-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime adventures in a supermarket car park"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAmong the usual cotoneaster, privet and box, Alys Fowler discovers a fearsome, foul-smelling Mediterranean arumThis summer, I\u2019ve spent rather a lot of time in Morrisons\u2019 car park. At times, I\u2019ve made daily trips, just to look at the strange things unfurling there.The place is full of all the predictable car-park planting \u2013 cotoneaster (which I may start guerrilla cloud-pruning), privet and box \u2013 plus lots of litter and undesirable desire lines. There\u2019s a hell of a lot of bark mulch, too, which must be from the Mediterranean, for otherwise I have no idea how the dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris), a native to the Balkans, mainland Greece, Crete and the Aegean Islands, appeared. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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