{"id":5383,"date":"2015-11-16T04:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T11:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2015-11-11T02:50:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T09:50:19","slug":"gardeners-are-exceptional-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/books\/gardeners-are-exceptional-people\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Exceptional Gardeners and Seven Christmas Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0711228965\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0711228965.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If gardeners are exceptional people then buy them a copy of this book for Christmas. It contains 20 stories and profiles about encounters with gardeners and a day in their life to provide reading matter for dark garden-free evenings. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Amongst those covered are these sixteen<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Roy Roberts Landscape Gardener<br \/>\nRoy Lancaster from Gardener&#8217;s Question Time<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0751335924\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0751335924.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTony Schilling Asian Heath Garden at Wakenhirst<br \/>\nThomas Pakenham Meetings with Remarkable Trees<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0297843508\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0297843508.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGeoffrey Dutton the Concrete Gardener<br \/>\nBeth Chatto Essex girl gardener<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1844036235\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1844036235.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHoward Donald Waterer<br \/>\nAnthea Gibson &#8216;The Cotswold Gardener&#8217;<br \/>\n Lady Salisbury writer of a Gardener&#8217;s Life<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0711226490\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0711226490.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDan Pearson &#8216;Guardian of Gardeners&#8217;<br \/>\nKim Wilkie &#8216;Reality is a condition induced by lack of imagination&#8217;.<br \/>\nRonald Blythe  Outsiders Gardener Friends.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0954928652\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0954928652.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLucinda Lambton President of Garden History Society<br \/>\nRichard Mabey of  Food for Free<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0007247680\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0007247680.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHugh &#8220;Wine Atlas&#8221; Johnson<br \/>\nJames &#8220;Gaia Hypothesis&#8221; Lovelock.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the book cover to buy from Amazon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If gardeners are exceptional people then buy them a copy of this book for Christmas. It contains 20 stories and profiles about encounters with gardeners and a day in their life to provide reading matter for dark garden-free evenings. Amongst those covered are these sixteen: Roy Roberts Landscape Gardener Roy Lancaster from Gardener&#8217;s Question Time Tony Schilling Asian Heath Garden at Wakenhirst Thomas Pakenham Meetings with Remarkable Trees Geoffrey Dutton the Concrete Gardener Beth Chatto Essex girl gardener Howard Donald&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/books\/gardeners-are-exceptional-people\/\"> 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":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","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=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}