{"id":4433,"date":"2010-05-12T19:36:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2010-05-12T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:36:08","slug":"at-last-a-british-use-for-rose-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/at-last-a-british-use-for-rose-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"At last &#8211; a use for British rose gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_4434\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rose_garden_clegg_cameron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rose_garden_clegg_cameron.jpg\" alt=\"The sweet smell of roses may be improving British politics\" title=\"rose_garden_clegg_cameron\" width=\"466\" height=\"260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rose_garden_clegg_cameron.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rose_garden_clegg_cameron-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sweet smell of roses is improving British politics<\/p><\/div> Marvellous that rose gardens are heralding a new age in British politics. Having found the perfect place for &#8216;getting into bed together&#8217;, Nick Clegg and David Cameron consumated their marriage in the garden of 10 Downing Street (after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_election_2010\">2010 UK Election<\/a>). John Major thought that if the White House had a rose garden then Downing Street should have one too &#8211; so the name was changed. These days, a rose garden is more likely to give one a seat at the top table than an independent nuclear deterrant. The political stench has been foul for most of my life, so my hope is that many future political events will take place in thornless rose gardens. One worry though &#8211; there are no roses. As I often remark, good garden design requires good garden designers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvellous that rose gardens are heralding a new age in British politics. Having found the perfect place for &#8216;getting into bed together&#8217;, Nick Clegg and David Cameron consumated their marriage in the garden of 10 Downing Street (after the 2010 UK Election). John Major thought that if the White House had a rose garden then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}