{"id":98838,"date":"2018-09-30T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-slow-pleasures-and-melancholy-of-autumn-gardening\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T06:04:01","slug":"the-slow-pleasures-and-melancholy-of-autumn-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-slow-pleasures-and-melancholy-of-autumn-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"The slow pleasures and melancholy of autumn gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFading light and failing growth brings its own beauty to the gardenSo the autumn equinox is over, October mere hours away. I know I have been banging on about fading light now for a month, but it is no longer deniable. This morning saw the last pre-7am sunrise until we return to GMT \u2013 and then it\u2019s only temporarily.I don\u2019t want to sound like a harbinger of doom and dark, though I\u2019ll admit to some seasonal melancholy. I watch the slowing of September seed now sluggish in its growth. Plants that surged only a month or so before are struggling a little more. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Fading light and failing growth brings its own beauty to the gardenSo the autumn equinox...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-pIa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122627,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/comfort-on-the-plot-as-the-year-slows-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":98838,"position":0},"title":"Comfort on the plot as the year slows down","date":"October 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r There\u2019s a special melancholy pleasure about this time of yearUp through the mist-kissed hills, past the crow-strewn rubbish, the young reefer-smoking worker taking a last toke before the Tube, the anxious fug of weed. 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