{"id":21249,"date":"2022-03-30T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21249"},"modified":"2022-03-30T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:41:41","slug":"not-making-gardens-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/not-making-gardens-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Making Gardens Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a sad fact that the British hobby of garden-making is in decline. That is partially due to social changes and more importantly there being no new land for gardens.<\/p>\n<h3>Scarce Resource<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Land is a scarce resource and what the suitable land is required for a multiplicity of other uses.<\/li>\n<li>Concrete jungles are preventing the sensible development of gardens other than for displaying onroof top gardens, patios or other man made efforts.<\/li>\n<li>The Dutch have developed plant growing to a fine art utilising land reclamation whilst our East Coast is eroded and some gardens fall into the North Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Social Expectation and Change<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Our UK population continues to grow, even though there is a blossoming interest in ecology and the environment, such growth is not noticeably translating into new gardens.<\/li>\n<li>There are fewer new parks and gardens in public ownership (unless you count skate parks and playgrounds). At least not in proportion to population growth.<\/li>\n<li>Living accommodation has changed in several ways with many more retirement villages, apartments and single occupation homes. Land\u00a0 is being converted in to a concrete jungle that will not return to a garden opportunity for many life times.<\/li>\n<li>There are many competing activities to distract potential garden aspirationalists. Whilst RHS membership may be growing that may reflect the hobby of observing not gardening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a sad fact that the British hobby of garden-making is in decline. That is partially due to social changes and more importantly there being no new land for gardens. Scarce Resource Land is a scarce resource and what the suitable land is required for a multiplicity of other uses. Concrete jungles are preventing the sensible development of gardens other than for displaying onroof top gardens, patios or other man made efforts. The Dutch have developed plant growing to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/not-making-gardens-anymore\/\"> 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":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249","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=21249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21251,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249\/revisions\/21251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}