{"id":1914,"date":"2018-05-10T22:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2018-06-28T14:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:40:57","slug":"1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=1914","title":{"rendered":"Hydrangeas by Sally Gregson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The May club night speaker was Sally Gregson, owner of Mill Cottage Plants, which specialises in Hydrangeas and Epimediums, mainly from Japan. She brought along a large selection of rare varieties, many of which were snapped up by members.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1916\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?attachment_id=1916\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1916\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1916\" src=\"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Portrait-Sally-Gregson-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Portrait-Sally-Gregson-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Portrait-Sally-Gregson-747x1024.jpg 747w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Portrait-Sally-Gregson.jpg 2014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Gregson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sally was first introduced to the Japanese varieties by her daughter, who had moved to Japan; she explained how originally Japanese plants arrived in Europe through medical officer Franz von Siebold in the early 19 C. (Japan at that time was a country closed to most foreigners).<\/p>\n<p>We admired the photographs of the many different varieties of hydrangeas, some of which do not even look like hydrangeas;\u00a0 Sally offered tips for planting, pruning and propagation, and her suggestions for underplanting were particularly useful (hostas, bergenia and others).<a href=\"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?attachment_id=1918\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1918\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1918 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Miyama-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Miyama-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Miyama-1-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A brief question-and-answer session ended this lively and interesting talk.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on hydrangeas and epimediums, visits to the nursery and books written by Sally, see her website <a href=\"https:\/\/millcottageplants.co.uk\">https:\/\/millcottageplants.co.uk<\/a> \u00a0and also \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/millcottageplants\/home\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/millcottageplants\/home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The May club night speaker was Sally Gregson, owner of Mill Cottage Plants, which specialises in Hydrangeas and Epimediums, mainly from Japan. She brought along a large selection of rare varieties, many of which were snapped up by members. Sally was first introduced to the Japanese varieties by her daughter, who had moved to Japan; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=1914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hydrangeas by Sally Gregson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}