{"id":2179,"date":"2013-04-01T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-38\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T19:27:07","slug":"guide-to-pruning","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/guide-to-pruning\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Pruning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/pruning-turnbull.jpg\" alt=\"Guide to pruning book jacket\" align=\"left\" \/>Cass Turnbull needs no introduction to our readers and a new book by her is a cause for celebration. Her &#8220;Guide to Pruning&#8221; is now available in its 3rd edition with three added chapters, including a much needed essay on Taming the Native-Plant Garden. She also addressed an impressive list of new plants not considered in the earlier editions, including &#8220;whackables&#8221; such as Lavatera and Perovskia. Oh, how I wish I had read about the dangers of whacking too soon&#8211;before making my mid-February cutbacks in my own garden.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Spring 2013 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass Turnbull needs no introduction to our readers and a new book by her is a cause for celebration. Her &#8220;Guide to Pruning&#8221; is now available in its 3rd edition with three added chapters, including a much needed essay on Taming the Native-Plant Garden. She also addressed an impressive list of new plants not considered in the earlier editions, including &#8220;whackables&#8221; such as Lavatera and Perovskia. Oh, how I wish I had read about the dangers of whacking too soon&#8211;before&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/guide-to-pruning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guide to Pruning<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[104,22],"class_list":["post-2179","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-pruning","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2179"}],"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\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}