{"id":46173,"date":"2017-03-02T18:52:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T11:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-bookworms-to-earthworms-my-top-five-gardening-books\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:05:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:05:05","slug":"from-bookworms-to-earthworms-my-top-five-gardening-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-bookworms-to-earthworms-my-top-five-gardening-books\/","title":{"rendered":"From bookworms to earthworms: my top five gardening books"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWorld Book Day isn\u2019t just about works of fiction. Neil Miller, head gardener at Hever Castle, picks his favourite books for the green-fingeredWhile most people\u2019s literary heroes include the likes of Shakespeare, Keats, JK Rowling and Jane Austen, those of us with green fingers worship a different band of authors – the garden writers. The shelves of my office at Hever Castle & Gardens groan under the weight of gardening books, from reference titles on herbs, perennials and citrus plants to bibles like The Gardening Year and everything Percy Thrower ever wrote. I love practical guides as well as books that explore the more unusual side of horticulture, such as plant hunting. Continue reading…
\n
\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…From bookworms to earthworms: my top five gardening books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Book Day isn\u2019t just about works of fiction. Neil Miller, head gardener at Hever...<\/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-46173","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-c0J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106642,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardening-tips-plant-a-dwarf-crab-apple-tree\/","url_meta":{"origin":46173,"position":0},"title":"Gardening tips: plant a dwarf crab apple tree","date":"April 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Then pick up tips at a tulip festival on how to deter squirrels and invest in a weederPlant this Dwarf crab apples are brilliant trees for smaller gardens as they stay compact: right now they are festooned with pink or white blossom, a valuable early source of pollen for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":112601,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardening-books-to-turn-over-a-new-leaf-james-wong\/","url_meta":{"origin":46173,"position":1},"title":"Gardening books to turn over a new leaf | James Wong","date":"November 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r My top five gardening books for horticulture enthusiastsI have been collecting gardening books since I was eight years old, and three decades later it is fair to say that the impulse is out of control. But out of well over 200 titles there are only a handful I go\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36720,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-best-gardening-books-of-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":46173,"position":2},"title":"The best gardening books of 2016","date":"December 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Gardening editor Jane Perrone picks the gardening books that should be on your Christmas listA good book is a vital part of the gardener\u2019s winter survival kit: when you can\u2019t get outside, you can dream big about next year, lose yourself in someone else\u2019s plot or discover new plants\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41400,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-january-is-the-month-for-gardening-books-alys-fowler\/","url_meta":{"origin":46173,"position":3},"title":"Why January is the month for gardening books | Alys Fowler","date":"January 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Alys Fowler on what to read during JanuaryIt\u2019s tempting to want to garden in January. The sun comes out, everything sparkles and you feel that pull. However, gardening now can be\u00a0problematic.If the weather has been wet, even walking back and forth over a bed can cause problems. Wet soil\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136525,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/fake-books-charles-dickens-got-there-first-brief-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":46173,"position":4},"title":"Fake books? Charles Dickens got there first | Brief letters","date":"May 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Shelf-esteem | Gardening tips | Gruff justice | The power of voting | Scathing school reportsFake books are older than you seem to think (Fake books: the controversial interiors trend for literary pretenders, 1 May). Charles Dickens created \u201cfaux-aged spines\u201d to line the door of his study at Gad\u2019s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":114916,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardening-tips-plant-cowslips\/","url_meta":{"origin":46173,"position":5},"title":"Gardening tips: plant cowslips","date":"March 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Then read a handy guide and make holes to let hedgehogs inPlant this Cowslips (Primula veris) will colonise ground around ponds or add sparkle to damp lawns, sending up spikes of buttery blooms in April and May that provide pollen and nectar for bees. These British native perennials prefer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}