{"id":13323,"date":"2017-05-02T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T23:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=13323"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T23:12:54","slug":"the-curious-gardener","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-curious-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13324\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"287\" \/>Much fun is found in <em>The Curious Gardener<\/em>, published by Anna Pavord in 2010.\u00a0 This collection of writings from the British newspaper <em>The Independent<\/em> includes a serviceable gardening calendar for our region, but I\u2019d especially check it out for the pure pleasure of essays written by a kindred, but at times contrary, gardening soul.<\/p>\n<p>She begins with a tongue-in-cheek, astrological calendar of gardening signs (as a Pisces, it is good to know my intuition will help me \u201c\u2026recognize that a plant is in difficulty long before it is past saving\u201d).\u00a0 Later she judges potential lovers by the choice of flowers they give on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>This same article brings out her political and environmental side, as she laments the ecological disaster caused by the huge business of producing cut flower roses in South America during the northern hemisphere winter.<\/p>\n<p>An added bonus are the wood engravings by Howard Phipps, carved on the end grain of a block of very hard boxwood, using a technique that reached its pinnacle in the mid-19<sup>th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 It\u2019s appropriate that the artist used a hand press from 1862 for the final images.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Published in <em>Garden Notes: Northwest Horticultural Society<\/em>, Summer 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much fun is found in The Curious Gardener, published by Anna Pavord in 2010.\u00a0 This collection of writings from the British newspaper The Independent includes a serviceable gardening calendar for our region, but I\u2019d especially check it out for the pure pleasure of essays written by a kindred, but at times contrary, gardening soul. She begins with a tongue-in-cheek, astrological calendar of gardening signs (as a Pisces, it is good to know my intuition will help me \u201c\u2026recognize that a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-curious-gardener\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Curious Gardener<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[1093,22],"class_list":["post-13323","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-landscape-gardening","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/13323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=13323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}