{"id":2167,"date":"2013-01-01T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-30\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T16:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T23:29:31","slug":"the-lavender-lovers-handbook","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-lavender-lovers-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lavender Lover&#8217;s Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/lavender-bader.jpg\" alt=\"Lavender lover's book jacket\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many urban farming and vegetable gardening books include lavender as a staple plant, but <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=13487\"> &#8220;The Lavender Lover&#8217;s Handbook&#8221; <\/a> provides much greater detail on the particular needs and benefits of these sub-shrubs. Sarah Berringer Bader is a lavender farmer in western Oregon and shares her expertise on selection, planting, maintaining, harvesting, and&#8211;yes!&#8211;cooking with lavender. Best is her selection of cultivars for various purposes such as best scent, richest color (in various hues), or in a landscape. She even includes the best choices for using in her recipes. An encyclopedia of available varieties is quite thorough and enhanced by Janet Loughrey&#8217;s skilled photography.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Winter 2013 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many urban farming and vegetable gardening books include lavender as a staple plant, but &#8220;The Lavender Lover&#8217;s Handbook&#8221; provides much greater detail on the particular needs and benefits of these sub-shrubs. Sarah Berringer Bader is a lavender farmer in western Oregon and shares her expertise on selection, planting, maintaining, harvesting, and&#8211;yes!&#8211;cooking with lavender. Best is her selection of cultivars for various purposes such as best scent, richest color (in various hues), or in a landscape. She even includes the best&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-lavender-lovers-handbook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lavender Lover&#8217;s Handbook<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[22],"class_list":["post-2167","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2167"}],"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=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}