{"id":91049,"date":"2018-06-10T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/summer-in-the-city-the-colours-of-london\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T05:03:12","slug":"summer-in-the-city-the-colours-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/summer-in-the-city-the-colours-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer in the city: the colours of London"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom window boxes to back yards and green parks, this season fills the streets with flowersGeraniums are red, lobelia are blue. My first job in London was at a posh plant nursery. I worked outside in the square selling plants for gardens and window boxes. I would take my lunch break in Holland Park. I was a teenager. I was squatting and super happy.Window-box flowers were mostly geraniums, pelargoniums, lobelia, hanging petunia. Geraniums were red, sometimes ivy-leaf and hanging. Lobelia were dark blue and trailing, same as the petunias. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Summer in the city: the colours of London<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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