{"id":26426,"date":"2016-09-18T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-nows-the-time-to-think-about-spring-bulbs-james-wong\/"},"modified":"2016-09-18T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T05:10:45","slug":"gardens-nows-the-time-to-think-about-spring-bulbs-james-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-nows-the-time-to-think-about-spring-bulbs-james-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardens: now\u2019s the time to think about spring bulbs | James Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTulips, dog\u2019s tooth violets, daffs\u2026 they all make winter worthwhileWhen I was 18 I experienced my first UK winter. Growing up in tropical Singapore I\u2019d had the romantic notion of a short three months of snowy Dickensian rooftops and ice skating on village ponds before the sun and warmth returned with a bang on 1 March. Boy was I wrong. I missed being able to sow seeds, harvest fruit and potter around in shorts and flip-flops whenever I wanted.But one day, wandering home from uni along a grey road on a bleak February afternoon, I noticed a splash of colour in an abandoned front garden. In between the beer cans and plastic bags a clump of perfect crocus blooms had erupted from beneath the earth: an everyday miracle, returning year after year for the price of a bag of bulbs. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Tulips, dog\u2019s tooth violets, daffs\u2026 they all make winter worthwhileWhen I was 18 I experienced...<\/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-26426","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\/p75ss1-6Se","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132624,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/planting-bulbs-now-for-a-future-reward-allan-jenkins\/","url_meta":{"origin":26426,"position":0},"title":"Planting bulbs now for a future reward | Allan Jenkins","date":"December 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A rainy morning\u2019s work in the winter will bring spring rewardsA dreich winter morning, the dark reluctant to lift. 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