{"id":2401,"date":"2018-07-27T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2018-07-27T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T10:04:36","slug":"tilford-cottage-garden-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=2401","title":{"rendered":"Tilford Cottage Garden Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Grayshott Gardeners turned up to visit this delightful garden owned by Rod Burn and his wife Pamela on Wednesday evening, and, after a brief introduction by Rod, went on to explore the many different \u201crooms\u201d and vistas. Rod professes to be \u201cand artist, not an gardener\u201d, and there are indeed many enchanting and captivating creations catching a visitor\u2019s imagination as they wander in and out of the herb garden, knot garden, Japanese garden, the floral area, and wider afield down to the river.<\/p>\n<p>His professional skills as an engineer are evident from the quirky tree house and other constructions in wood and metal (actually, chicken wire) and even plants: sculpted hedges and surprises abound, and the cloud topiary is truly a marvel. It doesn\u2019t stop there:\u00a0 paintings and the brilliant colours of his fused glass art are exhibited in the studio and around the workshop.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2401 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?attachment_id=2393'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0319-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0319-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0319-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?attachment_id=2399'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0322-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0322-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0322-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-2401 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?attachment_id=2385'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0323-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0323-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0323-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?attachment_id=2395'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0320-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0320-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RIMG0320-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Words and a few photos cannot do justice to all that this garden offers; fortunately, Rod and Pamela open their garden to visitors under the National Open Garden Scheme <a href=\"http:\/\/nags.org.uk\">nags.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0 for anyone who missed this visit, or would like to repeat it. More information can also be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/tilfordcottagegarden.co.uk\">http:\/\/tilfordcottagegarden.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Grayshott Gardeners turned up to visit this delightful garden owned by Rod Burn and his wife Pamela on Wednesday evening, and, after a brief introduction by Rod, went on to explore the many different \u201crooms\u201d and vistas. Rod professes to be \u201cand artist, not an gardener\u201d, and there are indeed many enchanting and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=2401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tilford Cottage Garden Visit<\/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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gg-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","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=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}