{"id":62,"date":"2007-03-08T04:19:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-03-09T05:21:50","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T12:21:50","slug":"save-heronswood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Save Heronswood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/08\/us\/08kingston.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th&amp;oref=slogin\">NY Times article<\/a> this morning. \u00c2\u00a0Long story short: \u00c2\u00a0Burpee is selling Dan Hinkley&#8217;s gem of a nursery north of Seattle. \u00c2\u00a0It will only set you back $9 million. \u00c2\u00a0The <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.weloveplants.org\/\">Pacific Northwest Horticultural Conservancy<\/a> is trying to raise money to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t followed the Heronswood story, it&#8217;s caused a bit of controversy. \u00c2\u00a0Key quote from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Christmas, Burpee landed on The Seattle Times\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153naughty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d list along with North Korea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leader, Kim Jong-il.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many gardeners feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Update 3\/\/9\/07: \u00c2\u00a0<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gardenrant.com\/my_weblog\/2007\/03\/george_ball.html\">Garden Rant<\/a> posting where in the comment thread I speculate about the value of the business as opposed to just the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times article this morning. \u00c2\u00a0Long story short: \u00c2\u00a0Burpee is selling Dan Hinkley&#8217;s gem of a nursery north of Seattle. \u00c2\u00a0It will only set you back $9 million. \u00c2\u00a0The Pacific Northwest Horticultural Conservancy is trying to raise money to buy it. If you haven&#8217;t followed the Heronswood story, it&#8217;s caused a bit of controversy. \u00c2\u00a0Key &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=62\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Save Heronswood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}