{"id":2146,"date":"2012-10-01T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-73\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T16:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T23:01:46","slug":"the-50-mile-bouquet","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-50-mile-bouquet\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Mile Bouquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/50_mile-bouquet.jpg\" alt=\"50 mile bouquet book jacket\" align=\"left\" \/>&#8220;When Debra and David began interviewing and photographing people who grow and arrange fresh, seasonal flowers for local markets, I knew they were documenting a new movement&#8230;you could call it the slow flower movement.&#8221; This quote, by Amy Stewart from the Foreword of &#8220;The 50 Mile Bouquet,&#8221; well summarizes this forward-looking book by Debra Prinzing and David Perry, which leaves you with a wider perspective and appreciation of fresh cut flowers and other greenery. This is in sharp contrast to the international florist industry, making Stewart&#8217;s 2007 book about that industry, &#8220;Flower Confidential,&#8221; a good companion reading (Stewart&#8211;who lives in Eureka, California&#8211;almost qualifies as a local author).<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Fall 2012 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When Debra and David began interviewing and photographing people who grow and arrange fresh, seasonal flowers for local markets, I knew they were documenting a new movement&#8230;you could call it the slow flower movement.&#8221; This quote, by Amy Stewart from the Foreword of &#8220;The 50 Mile Bouquet,&#8221; well summarizes this forward-looking book by Debra Prinzing and David Perry, which leaves you with a wider perspective and appreciation of fresh cut flowers and other greenery. This is in sharp contrast to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-50-mile-bouquet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 50 Mile Bouquet<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[22],"class_list":["post-2146","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2146"}],"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=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}