{"id":31165,"date":"2023-05-08T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T07:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31165"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T07:04:47","slug":"god-save-the-kings-hostas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31165","title":{"rendered":"God Save the King&#8217;s Hostas!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div dir=\"auto\">My only post on last weekend&#8217;s big news item. This memory came up on my feed this morning. In October 2015 I talked about my book Around the World in 80 plants at the Walled Kitchen Garden Network Forum weekend at the National Trust Property Croome Court in Worcestershire, England. As usual I joked about Prince Charles having the most productive Forest Garden in the UK as he had a national collection of large-leaved Hostas in woodland at Highgrove. Little did I know that the Prince&#8217;s head gardener was sat near the front. After the talk, he introduced himself, astonished that Hosta were edible. I thought quickly and presented him with a copy of the book and signed it &#8220;To HRH Prince Charles, Good luck with your Hosta eating!&#8221;. I had known of the Prince&#8217;s good works within the organic gardening movement since the 70s and indeed Highgrove is managed as an organic farm.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I was surprised to receive this letter later that winter and it resulted in a correspondence about Hosta cuisine which lead to me being invited to Highgrove to talk more and see the Hosta collection (sadly, there are no pictures of that day as cameras are strictly forbidden nor was I allowed to see the pictures the staff took). I had a hope that the Prince might turn up, but he had a lame excuse that it was his Mum&#8217;s birthday&#8230;..and now I&#8217;ve had to modify the slide about Hostas and Highgrove (see the comments).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">God Save the King&#8217;s Hostas!<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HostaP1490856-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HostaP1490856-1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HostaP1490856-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HostaP1490856-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/HostaP1490856-1-640x854.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My Highgrove Hosta slide:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Highgrove.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1424\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Highgrove.png 1424w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Highgrove-300x134.png 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Highgrove-1024x457.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Highgrove-768x342.png 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Highgrove-640x285.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1424px) 100vw, 1424px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My only post on last weekend&#8217;s big news item. This memory came up on my feed this morning. In October 2015 I talked about my book Around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99,1355],"tags":[94,521,431,432,4836,4837,4838],"class_list":["post-31165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-tour","category-perennial-vegetables","tag-around-the-world-in-80-plants","tag-croome-court","tag-highgrove","tag-hosta","tag-king-charles","tag-national-collection","tag-walled-kitchen-garden-network"],"views":2583,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=31165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31170,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions\/31170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}