Don’t accuse young people of lacking patience - we’ll have to wait decades, if ever, until we can afford a house and garden
Recently this blog published a post by Tom Smart bewailing young people’s preference for smart phones over tulip bulbs, blaming millennials’ lack of patience as the root cause for their lack of interest in horticulture. I’ve also come across this argument in the RHS magazine, The Garden.
As a millennial myself, I think this is rubbish. How can young people be accused of lacking patience when we’ll have to wait decades, if ever, until we manage to afford a house and garden? And therein lies the crux of the matter.
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