{"id":43825,"date":"2017-02-12T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/grow-your-own-jungle-easy-exotic-plants\/"},"modified":"2017-02-12T13:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T06:05:27","slug":"grow-your-own-jungle-easy-exotic-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/grow-your-own-jungle-easy-exotic-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow your own jungle: easy exotic plants"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTropical gardening is all too often associated with expense and poor results. But choose your plants wisely and you can turn your patch into a slice of verdant jungleAs a botanist who grew up in tropical Singapore I have always been in love with exotic garden style, but not in the way you might expect. As a kid I was obsessed with creating an English country garden in sweltering rainforest conditions, begging my grandmother in Wales to mail me packets of sweetpea and nasturtium seeds so I could sow them in trays by air-conditioning vents and in chiller cabinets. To me these were impossibly exotic, otherworldly plants I only knew from storybooks.Get your species choice right, and you don\u2019t have to splash out a small fortune Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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