{"id":86092,"date":"2018-04-22T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T04:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/routes-and-roots-mapping-my-walks-allan-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:04:11","slug":"routes-and-roots-mapping-my-walks-allan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/routes-and-roots-mapping-my-walks-allan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Routes and roots: mapping my walks | Allan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFavourite flowers and much-loved trees are a guide to where you liveI map my walks in flowers, or at least in interesting trees. There is the heavy-scented perpetual rose I will take a wide detour for if I am walking towards Regent\u2019s Canal; and there\u2019s the semi-wild, three-cornered leek that fills a Kentish Town front yard whose flowers I always enjoy and smell.In autumn, I change my route to admire the dinner-plate saffron dahlia that grows by the Hindu Centre. In summer, it is the Bengali amaranth in window boxes with gourds clambering over a neighbouring wall. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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