{"id":21496,"date":"2013-12-20T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=21496"},"modified":"2013-12-12T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T23:03:56","slug":"beatrix-potters-gardening-life-by-marta-mcdowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/beatrix-potters-gardening-life-by-marta-mcdowell\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatrix Potter&#8217;s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1030684\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21497\" alt=\"beatrix potter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/beatrix-potter.jpg?resize=315%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"315\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/beatrix-potter.jpg?w=315&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/beatrix-potter.jpg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a>There aren\u2019t many books more beloved than <strong><em>The Tale of Peter Rabbit<\/em> <\/strong>and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. More than 150 million copies of her books have sold worldwide and interest in her work and life remains high. And her characters &#8211; Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest &#8211; exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1030684\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Beatrix Potter\u2019s Gardening Life<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is the first book to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter\u2019s love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The book begins with a gardener\u2019s biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England&#8217;s Lake District. Next, the reader follows Beatrix Potter through a year, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that bring her gardens alive. The book culminates in a traveler\u2019s guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter\u2019s gardens today. Richly illustrated and filled with quotations from her books, letters, and journals, it is essential reading for all who know and cherish Beatrix Potter\u2019s classic tales.<em> (description from publisher)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There aren\u2019t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. More than 150 million copies of her books have sold worldwide and interest in her work and life remains high. And her characters &#8211; Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/beatrix-potters-gardening-life-by-marta-mcdowell\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1812,80,99,501],"class_list":["post-21496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-childrens-author","tag-england","tag-gardening","tag-gardens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5AI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496\/revisions\/21499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}