{"id":50598,"date":"2017-04-01T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-i-get-very-emotional-about-plants\/"},"modified":"2017-04-01T17:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T10:03:28","slug":"me-and-my-garden-i-get-very-emotional-about-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-i-get-very-emotional-about-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and my garden: \u2018I get very emotional about plants\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRoy Lancaster, plantsman, Chandler\u2019s Ford, HampshireAs a boy, I\u2019d go off into the moors just above my home in Bolton. I\u2019d find interesting birds, and wander farther and farther afield each time. I was returning from a bird walk one day when I passed an allotment. I looked over the fence and this very different plant was growing in a patch of potatoes. I was moved to climb the fence and pick a bit \u2013 it was very sticky. I became known as the boy who found the Mexican tobacco, Nicotiana rustica: it was only the second recorded occurrence of this plant wild in the British Isles. I thought, if it\u2019s that easy, what might I find if I really try?When I was curator at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, I saw it as my big garden. Once I left the arboretum, I wanted my own collection; a garden under my nose. That way, if I was writing about plants I was growing and I needed to check \u2013 did it have a hairy leaf? Were the flowers really dark pink in bud? \u2013 I could just go outside and look. Continue reading…
\n
\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Me and my garden: \u2018I get very emotional about plants\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roy Lancaster, plantsman, Chandler\u2019s Ford, HampshireAs a boy, I\u2019d go off into the moors just...<\/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-50598","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-da6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28531,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/diary-of-a-wildlife-garden-the-robins-return-kate-bradbury\/","url_meta":{"origin":50598,"position":0},"title":"Diary of a wildlife garden: the robin's return | Kate Bradbury","date":"October 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The sight of a robin lifts the heart of Kate Bradbury as she works on her new wildlife gardenIn the darkest days of January, after I had taken up the decking and dug a hole to plant my apple tree, a robin became the first visitor to my newly-made\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":95405,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-care-for-roses-alys-fowler\/","url_meta":{"origin":50598,"position":1},"title":"How to care for roses | Alys Fowler","date":"August 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The quickest route to good health in roses at this time of year is liquid feedI inherited a Rosa \u2018Alb\u00e9ric Barbier\u2019; it was placed halfway down the garden and did what a rambler is wont to do \u2013 namely, spread all the way over into the neighbour\u2019s garden. It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":147044,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/absolutely-wasted-the-inner-city-garden-using-food-scraps-to-create-top-grade-soil\/","url_meta":{"origin":50598,"position":2},"title":"Absolutely wasted: the inner-city garden using food scraps to create top grade soil","date":"September 13, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r An urban compost project has fostered an ingenious way to turn all kinds of waste food into fertiliser\u2018Let\u2019s start in the front garden!\u201d With\u00a0the delirious energy of a zany scientist showing off his lab, Anthony Ussher, 42, takes me around the compartmentalised space that makes up the garden of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38767,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-wildlife-garden-one-year-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":50598,"position":3},"title":"My wildlife garden: one year on","date":"December 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r While her friends were out celebrating, Kate Bradbury spent last Christmas keeping the woodlice company in her new wildlife garden. A year on, and the bird feeders are full ...As I write, 30 house sparrows are scrapping over the feeder outside my kitchen door. There are great tits in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":115028,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/property-law-my-neighbours-fence-has-blown-into-my-garden\/","url_meta":{"origin":50598,"position":4},"title":"Property Law: my neighbour\u2019s fence has blown into my garden","date":"March 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r How to avoid a border dispute, and the courts \u2014 plus what to do about overcrowded shared housing\r \r Source : ft.com\r Read more...Property Law: my neighbour\u2019s fence has blown into my garden","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":143,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/alys-fowler-this-plant-is-hellbent-on-bringing-all-the-bees-to-your-yard\/","url_meta":{"origin":50598,"position":5},"title":"Alys Fowler: \u2018This plant is hellbent on bringing all the bees to your yard\u2019","date":"December 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Plant it in a front garden or by the back door: however delicious the scent, you\u2019re probably not going to trudge to the far end of the garden in the thick of winter just for a sniff If you make a winter honeysuckle (Lonicera x purpusii) happy, it dusts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}