{"id":87903,"date":"2018-05-13T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/growing-flowers-and-families-in-my-daughters-garden-allan-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T05:03:28","slug":"growing-flowers-and-families-in-my-daughters-garden-allan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/growing-flowers-and-families-in-my-daughters-garden-allan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing flowers and families in my daughter\u2019s garden | Allan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSowing happy new memories amid the roses, lilac and jasmineI regrow my childhood with my children. Just warmer, brighter, better. They are grown now, too. Kala lives four doors away. In May we sow her summer flowers. I will have been collecting seed through winter, too much as always. I will want her garden to be wild like a fairytale. She\u2019ll fight to keep her lawn. We do the first big tidy in April: we will top up with fresh compost, maybe add farm manure, do any late last-minute pruning. We will work on growing summer.On or around her birthday this week we will mix her favourite flower seed while I try to slip in a few others. We will sow among the roses, lilac and jasmine, the red oleander and the magnolia in the corner. There are primroses from the hedge behind the river house where I grew up, also Viola odorata. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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