{"id":46714,"date":"2013-09-07T14:15:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=46714"},"modified":"2017-06-26T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:47:22","slug":"warm-thoughts-on-formal-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=46714","title":{"rendered":"warm thoughts on formal gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Have I mentioned how hot it&#8217;s been lately?  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/marvista2012\/_MG_3485.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo _MG_3485.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the kind of heat that gives a boho plant nut a deeper appreciation of the cool, austere lines of a formal garden.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/marvista2012\/_MG_3483.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo _MG_3483.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A garden built not on the scaffolding of flowers but leaves, eschewing lush variety for lean repetition.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/marvista2012\/_MG_3414.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo _MG_3414.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the kind of heat that makes the formal garden, that ancient response to dry climates, seem fresh and innovative again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/marvista2012\/_MG_3424.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo _MG_3424.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Katherine Spitz&#8217;s garden, Mar Vista, California, 2012 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.katherinespitzassociates.com\/\">Katherine Spitz Associates<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/marvista2012\/_MG_3452.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo _MG_3452.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s<\/em> how hot it&#8217;s been.<br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I mentioned how hot it&#8217;s been lately? It&#8217;s the kind of heat that gives a boho plant nut a deeper appreciation of the cool, austere lines of a formal garden. A garden built not on the scaffolding of flowers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=46714\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2807,551,33,112],"tags":[1930,973,1589,1932,1694,3050,1080,2527,1455],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-c9s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46714"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78416,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46714\/revisions\/78416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}