OTTAWA CITIZEN | By Ailsa Francis<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re tired of picking up a bouquet of predictable red roses for your significant other on Valentine\u2019s Day, then read on. Award-winning Canadian garden writer Sonia Day has eye-opening and provocative options for you in her newest booked, The Untamed Garden: A Revealing Look at our Love Affair with Plants (McClelland and Stewart, 2011).<\/p>\n
Who would have thought Day would be the writer to undertake such a racy volume? Perhaps it was her last book about growing veggies in the city (Incredible Edibles: 43 Fun Things to Grow in the City; Firefly, 2010) that whet her appetite for the passion brought out by plants? Could the stimulus have been her recipe for Hemingway\u2019s mojito using fresh homegrown mint or maybe it was the stirrings that resulted when she suggestively says, \u201cpop a juicy cherry tomato \u2014 still warm from the sun and picked off the vine \u2014 into your mouth, and you won\u2019t ever want to settle for the supermarket kind again.\u201d\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OTTAWA CITIZEN | By Ailsa Francis If you\u2019re tired of picking up a bouquet of predictable red roses for your significant other on Valentine\u2019s Day, then read on. Award-winning Canadian garden writer Sonia Day has eye-opening and provocative options for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}