{"id":441,"date":"2012-07-24T07:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/?p=441"},"modified":"2015-11-24T07:32:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:32:32","slug":"beauty-for-its-own-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/beauty-for-its-own-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty for its Own Sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The October issue of <em>Fine Gardening<\/em> magazine features an Editor&#8217;s Letter from Editor Steve Aitken, defending his commitment to focus on ornamental rather than edible plants.\u00a0 It&#8217;s high time someone extolled the virtues of creating a garden simply for beauty&#8217;s sake.\u00a0 Growing edible plants is wonderful, if that&#8217;s where your interests lie, and most people know that many edible plants also have ornamental value.\u00a0 However, some vegetable gardeners seem to fertilize their plots with a heavy helping of sanctimony.\u00a0 Needless to say, this does nothing for the quality of the crops and tends to harm the quality of discourse between the sanctimonious gardeners and others who prize different kinds of plants.<del><br \/>\n<\/del><\/p>\n<p>We gardeners are all part of the same fellowship&#8211;no matter what combination of plants we choose to grow.\u00a0 The birds, bees, butterflies and other species who frequent our gardens don&#8217;t make arbitrary distinctions based on plant function.\u00a0 We shouldn&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The October issue of Fine Gardening magazine features an Editor&#8217;s Letter from Editor Steve Aitken, defending his commitment to focus on ornamental rather than edible plants.\u00a0 It&#8217;s high time someone extolled the virtues of creating a garden simply for beauty&#8217;s sake.\u00a0 Growing edible plants is wonderful, if that&#8217;s where your interests lie, and most people &#8230; <a title=\"Beauty for its Own Sake\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/beauty-for-its-own-sake\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Beauty for its Own Sake\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,94,95,97],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-flower-gardening","tag-ornamental-gardening","tag-sanctimony","tag-vegetables-vs-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}