{"id":6986,"date":"2016-03-06T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-a-playdate-with-rose-balsam-james-wong\/"},"modified":"2016-03-06T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T06:04:55","slug":"gardens-a-playdate-with-rose-balsam-james-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-a-playdate-with-rose-balsam-james-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardens: a playdate with rose balsam | James Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith its bursting seed pods and dazzling colours, the rose balsam is the perfect plant for growing gardenersGardeners with kids: as the seed catalogues land on the doormat this spring, I implore you to look beyond the sweetpeas and sunflowers and consider introducing your little ones to the wonders of the rose balsam, Impatiens balsamina.One of the first plants to capture my imagination in my Singapore state school circa 1990, this species, to me, possesses a near perfect trifecta of child appeal, with flowers, wildlife value and even weird behaviour. Yet for some reason this wonderful bedding plant is still extremely underused in the UK, despite being ridiculously easy to grow. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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With its bursting seed pods and dazzling colours, the rose balsam is the perfect plant...<\/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-6986","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\/p75ss1-1OG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7784,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardens-expose-yourself-to-atomic-gardening-james-wong\/","url_meta":{"origin":6986,"position":0},"title":"Gardens: expose yourself to atomic gardening | James Wong","date":"March 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Try your hand at growing \u2018atomically energised\u2019 plant varieties. 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