{"id":10073,"date":"2023-10-01T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2023-10-01T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:13:03","slug":"garden-tv-dr-roderick-woods-pink-hibiscus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10073","title":{"rendered":"GARDEN\/TV: Dr Roderick Woods &amp; Pink Hibiscus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"567\" height=\"710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_1871-2-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-10072\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_1871-2-1.jpg 567w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_1871-2-1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr Wood with one of his own varieties.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Learned about this chap, Dr Wood, on <em>Gardener\u2019s World<\/em> this morning. A guy living in Norfolk. And a man obsessed. I have to say, I really dig what he\u2019s done\/is doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ones shown above would be lovely. But he suggests they\u2019re quite fussy, soil-wise. And we\u2019re not great gardeners. So I\u2019ll have to see if we\u2019re up to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His story about the pink hibiscus he spots in a French hedgerow, and his subsequent quest to first find (no luck), and then create (a proper odyssey!) them, is great. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passion and inspiration, in the quest for beauty and perfection? Wonderful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learned about this chap, Dr Wood, on Gardener\u2019s World this morning. A guy living in Norfolk. And a man obsessed. I have to say, I really dig what he\u2019s done\/is doing. The ones shown above would be lovely. But he suggests they\u2019re quite fussy, soil-wise. And we\u2019re not great gardeners. So I\u2019ll have to see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10073\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GARDEN\/TV: Dr Roderick Woods &amp; Pink Hibiscus&#8221;<\/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_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2Ct","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}