{"id":28117,"date":"2016-10-01T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-we-planted-a-rose-garden-with-our-daughters-ashes\/"},"modified":"2016-10-01T17:11:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T10:11:01","slug":"me-and-my-garden-we-planted-a-rose-garden-with-our-daughters-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-we-planted-a-rose-garden-with-our-daughters-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and my garden: \u2018We planted a rose garden with our daughter\u2019s ashes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nEileen Reece, Tring, Hertfordshire After my daughter Maxine was born in 1981, she was diagnosed with congenital heart disease at about three months. It was a life-threatening disease and I decided to stay at home for a few years, so I could spend as much time with her as possible. I started growing and selling herbs \u2013 I had about 120 of them in the garden. The garden was like an allotment, with greenhouses and vegetables, but not many flowers.I didn\u2019t have any interest in roses then, but one day when Maxine was about seven, she said to me, \u201cMummy, can we move to a house that\u2019s got roses around the door?\u201d I said to her, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t really want to move, but I\u2019ll grow one,\u201d so we planted a climbing rose by the back door \u2013 and it\u2019s still there today. Ten years ago, we built a new house in our garden and moved in there; our current garden is half the size it was. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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