{"id":140,"date":"2016-06-24T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=140"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:07:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:07:57","slug":"cherie-blair-wife-to-the-uk-prime-minister-has-new-rose-named-in-her-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/cherie-blair-wife-to-the-uk-prime-minister-has-new-rose-named-in-her-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherie Blair, Wife To The UK Prime Minister, Has New Rose Named In Her Honour."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcgardenersworldlive.com\/\">New rose named after Prime minsters wife<\/a><br \/>\nTomorrow Friday 16th June,Cherie Blair will be presented with a rose named in her honour at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcgardenersworldlive.com\/\"> BBC Gardeners World Live show.<\/a>&#160;With its dark red,velvety blooms opening in loose rosette form, and a distinct,spicy aroma,Cherie;Is an eye-catching floribunda that will bring colour and vivacity to any garden.<br \/>\n&#160;<br \/>\nThe &lsquo;Cherie&rsquo; rose is a breakthrough among red perfumed roses.&#160; It is particularly resilient to disease, making it a hardy bedding rose and ideal for general planting. The roses introduction will benefit Refuge, a national charity for women and children experiencing domestic violence(Cherie Booth the charity&#8217;s Patron).Royalties from each rose sold in the UK will benefit the charity.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Horley, OBE, chief executive of Refuge, national domestic violence charity, says:This year Refuge is celebrating 35 years since opening the world&#8217;s first refuge in Chiswick, London.Cherie Blair has worked with Refuge for the last 12 years, first as a trustee and now as patron.Her support of our work over this period has been unwavering.Refuge is delighted that Cherie has been chosen to have a rose named in her honour.We are also enormously grateful to Cherie for selecting Refuge as the charitable beneficiary for her rose.This is a great privilege.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcgardenersworldlive.com\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New rose named after Prime minsters wife Tomorrow Friday 16th June,Cherie Blair will be presented with a rose named in her honour at the BBC Gardeners World Live show.&#160;With its dark red,velvety blooms opening&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}