{"id":2713,"date":"2015-10-31T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T10:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2015-10-31T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T10:40:08","slug":"letter-from-the-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not every day one finds a letter from Prince Charles in the mailbox :) I met two of the gardeners at Highgrove after my talk at Croome earlier this month and decided to ask them if they could pass on a copy of my book to the Prince! This is because I mention him and Highgrove in my Around the World talks as having the most productive edible Forest Garden in the UK &#8211; through his national collection of large leaved Hostas! Below is\u00a0the letter and the slide from my talk where I talk about the Forest Garden at Highgrove!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my original article on edible Hostas in Permaculture Magazine where I mention the Prince!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2722\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2722<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490854-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1490854\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490854-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490854.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490856.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490856-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1490856\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490856-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490856-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490856-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1490856.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HostA_Highgrove-300x224.png\" alt=\"HostA_Highgrove\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HostA_Highgrove-300x224.png 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HostA_Highgrove.png 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not every day one finds a letter from Prince Charles in the mailbox :) I met two of the gardeners at Highgrove after my talk at Croome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[431,432,375],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-gardening","category-perennials","tag-highgrove","tag-hosta","tag-prince-charles"],"views":5599,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}