{"id":444,"date":"2012-07-25T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T18:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/?p=444"},"modified":"2015-11-24T07:32:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:32:32","slug":"battersea-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/battersea-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Battersea Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garden restorations never cease to fascinate me and I am especially inspired by the restoration of the Old English Garden in Battersea Park, London, featured recently in <em>The Guardian<\/em> newspaper (http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/gallery\/2012\/jul\/13\/transformation-old-English-garden-in-pictures?INTCMP=SRCH#\/?picture=393026851&amp;index=0).\u00a0 The restoration is being done\u00a0under the auspices of Thrive, an English charity devoted to horticultural therapy, with the actual work completed by gardening trainees who suffer from physical or emotional disabilities .\u00a0 The project is being underwritten by Jo Malone Ltd., a fragrance and luxury goods company, some of whose employees also worked alongside the Thrive trainees.\u00a0 Award-winning garden designer Sarah Price created the new planting scheme, which features a combination of colorful flowering plants that adorn beds and support structures.\u00a0 The garden is at once romantic and inspiring.\u00a0 Find out more at the Thrive website&#8211;http:\/\/www.thrive.org.uk\/jo-malone-limited-and-thrive.aspx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garden restorations never cease to fascinate me and I am especially inspired by the restoration of the Old English Garden in Battersea Park, London, featured recently in The Guardian newspaper (http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/gallery\/2012\/jul\/13\/transformation-old-English-garden-in-pictures?INTCMP=SRCH#\/?picture=393026851&amp;index=0).\u00a0 The restoration is being done\u00a0under the auspices of Thrive, an English charity devoted to horticultural therapy, with the actual work completed by gardening trainees &#8230; <a title=\"Battersea Park\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/battersea-park\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Battersea Park\">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":[6,2,3],"tags":[101,104,103,98,99,102,100],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-spring","category-summer","tag-battersea-park","tag-disabled-gardeners","tag-garden-restoration","tag-horticulture-therapy","tag-jo-malone","tag-old-english-garden","tag-thrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}