{"id":16876,"date":"2016-06-17T21:14:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-is-monty-don-waging-war-on-begonias\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:20:20","slug":"why-is-monty-don-waging-war-on-begonias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-is-monty-don-waging-war-on-begonias\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Monty Don waging war on begonias?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe TV gardener has upset lovers of the bedding plant by labelling them \u201crepulsive\u201d \u2013 no wonder he\u2019s the scourge of British garden centresFull name: Montagu Denis Wyatt DonAge: 60. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/shortcuts\/2016\/jun\/17\/why-is-monty-don-waging-war-on-begonias\" target=\"_blank\">Why is Monty Don waging war on begonias?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The TV gardener has upset lovers of the bedding plant by labelling them \u201crepulsive\u201d \u2013&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-4oc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11240,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/alys-fowler-think-begonias-are-uncool-think-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":16876,"position":0},"title":"Alys Fowler: think begonias are uncool? 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