{"id":3274,"date":"2019-10-26T11:58:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2019-10-26T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:58:52","slug":"hidcote-gloucestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Hidcote, Gloucestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0491.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0491.jpg\" alt=\"Garden building\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0491.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0491-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <em>National Trust<\/em><br \/>\nThe glory of Hidcote is the series of gardens, the house being small and not of particular interest.<br \/>\nI started my tour by heading for the kitchen garden, which as well as the inevitable vegetables contained some attractive swathes of tall flowers. The rest of the gardens follow Arts &#038; Crafts principles, being arranged as formal garden &#8216;rooms&#8217; near the house with a more naturalistic style in the outer reaches. The outer parts include a Great Lawn and a Long Walk.<br \/>\nThe creator of the garden, Major Lawrence Johnson, acquired the house and estate in 1907. Johnson had a serious interest in plants and plant collecting.<br \/>\nThe estate is well worth a visit if you are interested in gardens. It is possible to walk round everything in under 2 hours.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3308\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0490.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0490-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"House\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3308\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manor House<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_3309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3309\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0492.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0492-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3309\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_3310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3310\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0493.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hidcote_0493-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Borders\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3310\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Borders<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Trust The glory of Hidcote is the series of gardens, the house being small and not of particular interest. I started my tour by heading for the kitchen garden, which as well as the inevitable vegetables contained some attractive swathes of tall flowers. The rest of the gardens follow Arts &#038; Crafts principles, being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=3274\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hidcote, Gloucestershire&#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":[12,3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274"}],"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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}