{"id":896,"date":"2014-09-25T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2014-09-25T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T09:40:00","slug":"a-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"A Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Woman in Art \/ Dave Stokes \/ Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

Some people have the ability to grow flowers, plant fruit and vegetables that would put a harvest festival to shame and maintain a garden all year round that gives pleasure whenever you enter it. These people have green fingers. I do not.<\/p>\n

What skill is it that I have not been endowed with? I read gardening books, visit Chelsea each year, admire and listen to experts, but my endeavours amount to very little. There is an advert comparing 2 flower tubs, one of which has been generously fed with a plant feed and the other left to its own devices. The well fed plant is, of course, huge and luxuriant while the other is a mere echo of the former. Alas, the unfed plant is my plant. Not for lack of love or interest or even plant feed, but lack of green fingers.<\/p>\n

I am offered advice from the great and good, family members who irritatingly can grow anything they choose to and still I fail to produce a garden to be proud of. I am not concerned that I lack many other skills in life. I have accepted that fact that I can\u2019t sing, play the piano, knit or even bake a cake. My abilities in the work place or home have never been in dispute and I pride myself that I am loved and have great friends, but what is it that allows some a life force in their hands?<\/p>\n

Retirement beckons and with more time to devote to the elusive god of the garden, I realise that I can only continue to hope that I can win the lottery and employ a gardener who knows the secret of green fingers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people have the ability to grow flowers, plant fruit and vegetables that would put a harvest festival to shame and maintain a garden all year round that gives pleasure whenever you enter it. These people have green fingers. I do not. What skill is it that I have not been endowed with? I read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}