{"id":19255,"date":"2018-05-16T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T10:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19255"},"modified":"2018-05-16T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T10:23:25","slug":"a-garden-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/a-garden-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Garden by any Other Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Naming of Garden Areas<\/h3>\n<p>Previously I have stuck to traditional names for bits of my garden. Veg plot, rockery, orchard (when I feel posh), rose bed, border, hedge and similar names have delineate what and where I was trying to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Then I\u00c2\u00a0 launched some new names including the <strong>Den Den<\/strong> for a mixture of lolly pop like Primula denticulata .\u00c2\u00a0 This naming obsession started some years ago with the <strong>&#8216;Stumpery&#8217;<\/strong> when I couldn&#8217;t dig out and dispose of the whole of a conifer root.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Alpine Land&#8217;<\/strong> speaks for itself and reflects the time I was a keen member of the AGS. I collected lots of rocks and build slopes and appropriate habitats. Perhaps it deserves a better name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pinkery<\/strong> has many dianthus and <strong>Japan Land<\/strong> has more statues and hard landscape and deserves more space.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19288\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/great-spring-103-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favourite bed is <strong>Rhodo Road<\/strong> which will come into its own as spring develops. There are currently 3 early white bloomers that have eluded the frost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mole Mound<\/strong> contains some plastic moles or heads thereof, a big pile of dumped top soil which turned out to be subsoil and some shrubs.<\/p>\n<p>The whole plot is named Fairfaxery Gardens after the street where it edges the roadside. I do not grow any more successfully but &#8230;&#8230;..they say give a dog a bad name but the garden may not be perfect but it isn&#8217;t a dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naming of Garden Areas Previously I have stuck to traditional names for bits of my garden. Veg plot, rockery, orchard (when I feel posh), rose bed, border, hedge and similar names have delineate what and where I was trying to grow. Then I\u00c2\u00a0 launched some new names including the Den Den for a mixture of lolly pop like Primula denticulata .\u00c2\u00a0 This naming obsession started some years ago with the &#8216;Stumpery&#8217; when I couldn&#8217;t dig out and dispose of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/a-garden-by-any-other-name\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19289,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255\/revisions\/19289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}