{"id":12908,"date":"2020-09-19T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardern.co.za\/?p=12908"},"modified":"2020-09-19T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T19:54:17","slug":"windcliff-by-daniel-j-hinkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2020\/09\/windcliff-by-daniel-j-hinkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Windcliff, by Daniel J. Hinkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I’ll admit it, I was a Heronista.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is hardly a plants person who hasn’t been influenced by Daniel Hinkley, his Heronswood Nursery, his collections of plants – most raised from seed collected from far off places like the Himalaya or the Andes – the rare plants – even the catalogs – those inch-thick, verbose catalogs that we anxiously awaited for every January to entertain us on long winter nights – catalogs we would reread long before the internet to keep us up late circling items, making wish lists, and hoping that we could order items before they became sold out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n