{"id":4077,"date":"2010-05-31T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:07:56","slug":"where-are-the-women-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=4077","title":{"rendered":"Where are the Women Designers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>In the aftermath of this year&#8217;s Chelsea show, the dearth of entries by women is discussed in this provocative article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/gardening\/chelseaflowershow\/7777615\/Chelsea-Flower-Show-2010-where-are-the-women-garden-designers.html\">Telegraph.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article quotes a Sue Hayward, who wonders if the deficit can be due to the fact that, instead of burly construction matters and hardscape, &#8220;women have more affinity with plants &#8211; only a minority want to get down and dirty.&#8221;  Really? And this line startled me too:  &#8220;Is it, in part, because so many female garden designers are career-changers working part-time?&#8221;  I wonder who&#8217;s crunched those numbers, or is this just anecdotal?    <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some of these questions will be addressed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/features\/womans-hour\/gardening\/\">BBC radio program<\/a> to be aired May 31 on women and gardening.  <\/p>\n<p>More information and interviews found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardeningwomen.com\/\">here.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Happy holidays to those readers celebrating them today, whether it be Bank Holiday or Memorial Day or something else.<\/p>\n<p>Choppy segue to Artemisia pedemontana, a ground-hugging charmer in the front gravel garden but velcro for sticks and other bits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=530morn023.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/530morn023.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of this year&#8217;s Chelsea show, the dearth of entries by women is discussed in this provocative article from the Telegraph. The article quotes a Sue Hayward, who wonders if the deficit can be due to the fact &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=4077\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[551,445],"tags":[875,889,878,306,876,877],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-shop-talk","tag-artemisia-pedemontana","tag-bbc-radio","tag-chelsea-flower-show-2010","tag-garden-design","tag-sue-hayward","tag-the-telegraph"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-13L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15230,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/15230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}