{"id":2107,"date":"2010-10-01T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-98\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T16:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T23:17:28","slug":"the-new-low-maintenance-garden","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-new-low-maintenance-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/NewLowMaintenance.jpg\" alt=\"New Low maintenance garden cover\" align=\"left\" \/> Enjoy it. These final two words of the sub-title to Valerie Easton&#8217;s new book, &#8220;The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden&#8221; are the key to her message. Other low maintenance manuals treat the garden as a bothersome necessity to having a house; here the emphasis in on the joy of the garden, without it taking over your life.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by broad themes, including &#8220;Design with Maintenance in Mind&#8221; and &#8220;Nature&#8217;s Rhythms&#8221;, Easton augments her points with interviews of an impressive list of designers, gardeners, and home owners who have created a successful outdoor space. She completes each chapter with a list of books and other resources (once a librarian&#8230;) and throughout there are oodles of tips for simplification. Best of all, she gives the type A gardener permission to relax, and to find the pleasure of it all again.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Fall 2010 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy it. These final two words of the sub-title to Valerie Easton&#8217;s new book, &#8220;The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden&#8221; are the key to her message. Other low maintenance manuals treat the garden as a bothersome necessity to having a house; here the emphasis in on the joy of the garden, without it taking over your life. Organized by broad themes, including &#8220;Design with Maintenance in Mind&#8221; and &#8220;Nature&#8217;s Rhythms&#8221;, Easton augments her points with interviews of an impressive list of designers,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-new-low-maintenance-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[329,22],"class_list":["post-2107","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-low-maintenance-gardening","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2107"}],"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=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}