{"id":58216,"date":"2017-06-17T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-the-towering-silver-fir-was-planted-in-the-19th-century\/"},"modified":"2017-06-17T17:11:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T10:11:15","slug":"me-and-my-garden-the-towering-silver-fir-was-planted-in-the-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/me-and-my-garden-the-towering-silver-fir-was-planted-in-the-19th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and my garden: \u2018The towering silver fir was planted in the 19th century\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nJane Hasell-McCosh, gardener at Dalemain country house, on gardening with children and her family\u2019s link to Captain Cook Walking among the poppies in midsummer is simply magical: they start out life as dark purple and turn into the most beautiful blue. Swathes of them open at around the same time as the handkerchief tree (Davidia involucrata), so the effect is wonderful. My mother-in-law, Sylvia McCosh, was a great plantswoman; she introduced the Dalemain poppy (Meconopsis \u2018Dalemain\u2019) to the low gardens.The garden my husband, Robert, and I inherited reflects my life as well as the lives of those who have loved it. When my daughter Hermione was born, we planted a turkey oak, then a lovely weeping beech at the front of the lawn for our twins, Beatrice and George. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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