{"id":2008,"date":"2014-07-22T09:50:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T09:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2014-07-22T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T09:50:15","slug":"oxford-botanic-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2008","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Botanic Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Oxfordbot_8249.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Oxfordbot_8249.jpg\" alt=\"Ornamental round pond\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Oxfordbot_8249.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Oxfordbot_8249-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <em>private<\/em><br \/>\nThe University of Oxford Botanic Garden (founded 1621) is the oldest botanic garden in Britain. A square walled space, the Walled Garden, contains rectangular beds with the scientific collection of plants from many countries, and beyond the walls are the Lower Garden housing the ornamental plants, and glasshouses.<br \/>\nTwo of the formal plots in the Walled Garden contain plants of use in medicine.<br \/>\nThe most interesting section of the Lower Garden is the Merton Borders, a sustainable and diverse planting, from seed and unfertilised, of plants from three dry grassland areas of the world. Intensive care and seasonal replanting is avoided. As well as being an interesting concept, it looks very pretty.<br \/>\nOne of the glass houses contains cacti.<br \/>\nThe Gardens have literary associations including Tolkien and &#8220;His Dark Materials.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Visit date: July 2014)<br \/>\nThe Garden is opposite Magdalen College. Admission fees apply.<br \/>\nIf travelling by car, note that there is very limited parking other than the Oxford Park &#038; Ride.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2017\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/OxfordBot_8240.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/OxfordBot_8240-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Merton Border - multicoloured flowers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2017\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merton Border<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2018\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Oxfordbot_8242.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Oxfordbot_8242-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tall cacti in glasshouse\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2018\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tall cacti<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2019\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Oxfordbot_8246.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Oxfordbot_8246-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cacti in glasshouse\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2019\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cacti<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>private The University of Oxford Botanic Garden (founded 1621) is the oldest botanic garden in Britain. A square walled space, the Walled Garden, contains rectangular beds with the scientific collection of plants from many countries, and beyond the walls are the Lower Garden housing the ornamental plants, and glasshouses. Two of the formal plots in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oxford Botanic Garden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}