{"id":83281,"date":"2018-03-21T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T05:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-a-few-floral-traces-of-a-once-bountiful-market-garden\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T06:03:53","slug":"country-diary-a-few-floral-traces-of-a-once-bountiful-market-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-a-few-floral-traces-of-a-once-bountiful-market-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: a few floral traces of a once bountiful market garden"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSt Dominic, Tamar Valley: The last gardener of this steep ground made a living from its five and a half acres. Now only a few daffodils remain from that period of intense cultivationPrimroses flower beneath a tangle of brambles on the sun-warmed hedge at the bottom of a former market garden in the Cleave valley. Chunks of wood and brash (rough-cut branches) strew the south-facing slope, interspersed with frost-withered hart\u2019s-tongue, self-sown ash, and plastic tubes guarding deciduous saplings. The National Trust and volunteers are planting these to replace larch felled because of the threat of disease (Phytophthora ramorum). Thirty-year-old tree trunks have been dragged out and carted away for chipboard, stakes and firewood. Others are being burned in the woodchip boiler that heats a nearby glasshouse nursery. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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