{"id":2088,"date":"2008-10-01T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-189\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T15:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:50:38","slug":"best-plant-picks","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/best-plant-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Plant Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/BestPlantPicks.jpg\" alt=\"Best plant picks cover\" align=\"left\" \/> Steve Whysall has been a regular garden writer for the Vancouver Sun for 15 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=11236\">&#8220;Best Plant Picks&#8221;<\/a> selects trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and ferns from his more recent columns and organizes them in a gardening calendar, including tips on monthly chores and seasonal highlights. While not a major departure for the author&#8217;s earlier books, there are some interesting juxtapositions here. A good choice for a new gardener who is willing to experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Fall 2008 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Whysall has been a regular garden writer for the Vancouver Sun for 15 years. &#8220;Best Plant Picks&#8221; selects trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and ferns from his more recent columns and organizes them in a gardening calendar, including tips on monthly chores and seasonal highlights. While not a major departure for the author&#8217;s earlier books, there are some interesting juxtapositions here. A good choice for a new gardener who is willing to experiment. Excerpted from the Fall 2008 Arboretum Bulletin.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/best-plant-picks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best Plant Picks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[321,22],"class_list":["post-2088","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-plant-recommendation","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2088"}],"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\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}