{"id":2505,"date":"2015-09-28T16:40:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2505"},"modified":"2015-09-28T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:50:29","slug":"the-walled-garden-at-knightshayes-court","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2505","title":{"rendered":"The Walled Garden at Knightshayes Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I&#8217;m talking on both days at the Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend at the National Trust Property Croome Court in Worcestershire, England (3rd-4th October) (it&#8217;s open to all!): <a href=\"https:\/\/wkgn.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/17\/forum-update\">https:\/\/wkgn.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/17\/forum-update<\/a><br \/>\nI thought then it would be fitting to post an album of pictures taken during a memorable visit to a National Trust walled garden in Devon, a garden that features in my book Around the World in 80 plants.<br \/>\nCovering an area of just over four acres, the walled kitchen garden at Knightshayes Court is well worth a visit. It was restored in 2001 after having been used actively until the 1960s! I visited on 6th July 2011, hoping to get a site of the legendary perennial Taunton Deane Cottager&#8217;s Kale that I&#8217;d seen featured in a Gardeners World program on youtube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c30-3BWEGAw&amp;list=PL6B48B7C3A43F803A\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c30-3BWEGAw&amp;list=PL6B48B7C3A43F803A<\/a><br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t to be disappointed! Not only that, there were several cultivars of Allium ampeloprasum on display, another species I was researching for my book amongst many other mouth watering vegetables!<\/p>\n<p>See the album here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/67\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/67<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I&#8217;m talking on both days at the Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend at the National Trust Property Croome Court in Worcestershire, England (3rd-4th October) (it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2505","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2505\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}