{"id":4606,"date":"2013-09-04T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:32:40","slug":"recommended-reading-flower-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/recommended-reading-flower-confidential\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading: &#8220;Flower Confidential&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/09\/flower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4607\" alt=\"flower\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/09\/flower.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>I read <em>Flower Confidential<\/em> by Amy Stewart a few years ago and recently read it again.\u00a0 It is a \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d \u00a0history of the cut flower industry in the United States.\u00a0 Learn about the quest for the blue rose. (sold in Pike Place market), how flowers are grown in giant green houses and they never even touch soil or do you ever wonder why roses we purchase at the supermarket have no scent?\u00a0 Not only is this book a fascinating study of a unique industry, it also reaffirmed my love of the local PNW garden!\u00a0 Call No. <a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/search~S0?\/cSB443.3+.S74+2007\/csb++443.3+s74+2007\/-3,-1,,E\/browse\">SB443.3 .S74 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-Library staff member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart a few years ago and recently read it again.\u00a0 It is a \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d \u00a0history of the cut flower industry in the United States.\u00a0 Learn about the quest for the blue rose. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/recommended-reading-flower-confidential\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}