{"id":56814,"date":"2017-06-03T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T09:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-for-clients-im-conscious-of-design-but-at-home-i-cram-plants-in\/"},"modified":"2017-06-03T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T10:12:28","slug":"me-and-my-garden-for-clients-im-conscious-of-design-but-at-home-i-cram-plants-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-for-clients-im-conscious-of-design-but-at-home-i-cram-plants-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and my garden: \u2018For clients I\u2019m conscious of design, but at home I cram plants in\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRazvan Chisu, horticulturalist, Barthomley, CheshireI grew up in Transylvania. Some people don\u2019t believe me when I say it\u2019s a real place,but it\u2019s a part of Romania where the wildlife is amazingly rich. When I\u00a0was a small boy my grandfather took me on walks and I would collect plants for my own little plot. At that time, they were tearing down lots of old houses to build tower blocks. My grandfather worked in demolition so he brought plants back, too; perennials and shrubs that had survived since before the communist regime.I joined the Alpine Garden Society when I was 14 years old and the Royal Horticultural Society a\u00a0few years later. This was before the days of the internet, and I used to read their two magazines from cover to cover. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Razvan Chisu, horticulturalist, Barthomley, CheshireI grew up in Transylvania. 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