{"id":91053,"date":"2018-06-10T13:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T06:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hottest-may-in-100-years-sparks-a-great-british-gardening-boom\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T07:03:22","slug":"hottest-may-in-100-years-sparks-a-great-british-gardening-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hottest-may-in-100-years-sparks-a-great-british-gardening-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hottest May in 100 years sparks a great British gardening boom"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNurseries reap the benefits of \u2018miracle May\u2019 and Instagram-led craze for cactiAfter a frosty winter and a dismal spring, garden centres were bracing themselves for a bad year. But now retailers are reporting record-breaking plant sales, as a result of the hottest May weather in a century and a newfound passion for gardening among millennial Instagram users.\u201cAt the end of April we had a huge [sales] deficit and were frighteningly behind,\u201d said Colin Dale, head of plants at the family-owned Notcutts garden centre chain. \u201cMay was a miracle: it has been so good it has taken us over budget for the year, which seems almost impossible.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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