Talk:Woodland garden

A fact from Woodland garden appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 February 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the woodland garden (example pictured), "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 03:36, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Rhododendrons at Sheringham Park

... that the woodland garden, colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"? Source: Quest-Ritson, Charles, The English Garden: A Social History, 2003, Penguin, ISBN 978014029502X, p. 235
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Edward Hull (knight)

Created by Johnbod (talk). Self-nominated at 03:36, 29 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

This caught my attention when I saw it on my watchlist and that gorgeous image sucked me right in to reading the article, which ticks all the DYK boxes, as far as I can tell. Article is well-written and neutral, photographs are beautiful and compliant with fair use, offline sources are accepted in good faith. I have slight reservations about a hook consisting almost entirely of a quotation, but that is an exceedingly minor nitpick which has little if any bearing on my decision as a reviewer – after all, the hook (combined with the image) did lure me directly, almost impulsively, into reading the article. I might try to come up with a potential alt hook to suggest, but otherwise I think this is good to go once the QPQ is completed. --Dylan620 (he/him · talk · edits) 04:01, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
new enough, long enough, no copyvio, and is well written with an interesting hook. This series of garden articles are fascinating, on a topic I had never thought of visually before, though my 81 year old mother is obsessed and would approve. In the expectation of a QPQ shortly, GTG. Ceoil (talk) 15:58, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- QPQ done. May the best man win! Johnbod (talk) 16:55, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Promoter's comment to @Ceoil and Dylan620: so... do you both get half a QPQ or... theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 03:36, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    - ...no, Dylan can have it! I was only intersecting to talk about gardens.....Ceoil (talk) 20:09, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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