{"id":2873,"date":"2019-02-16T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2019-02-17T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T09:50:14","slug":"snowdrops-display-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=2873","title":{"rendered":"Snowdrops Display Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gordon and Judith Rae\u2019s garden is perfect for showing off snowdrops: many are planted in terraces, which are at waist height, so no going down on one\u2019s knees.&nbsp; There were clumps of snowdrops everywhere, too many to count but we will take Gordon\u2019s word for it that there were at least 150 different varieties, all clearly labelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Snowdrops-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Snowdrops-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Snowdrops-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Snowdrops.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A small part of the garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The snowdrops were at their best, and a walk crisscrossing the large garden perfectly illustrated the different shapes, sizes and colour marks among the species. Interspersed between the bulbs were beautiful hellebores and small, colourful cyclamen, all set against \u201c50 shades of green\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Gordon-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Gordon-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Gordon-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Gordon-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Advice from the Expert!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gill and Liz\nwere amongst the helpers providing tea and biscuits, which also offered an\nopportunity to admire the capsule exhibition of specimen snowdrops, and to\ncatch up with the many other Grayshott Gardeners members and visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hot-drinks-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hot-drinks-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hot-drinks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hot-drinks.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Hot drinks and biscuits!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This visit\nhad been postponed from early February, due to snow, but proved well worth the\nwait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you Gordon and Judith!<em>\u00a0                                                                                        (photos John Price)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon and Judith Rae\u2019s garden is perfect for showing off snowdrops: many are planted in terraces, which are at waist height, so no going down on one\u2019s knees.&nbsp; There were clumps of snowdrops everywhere, too many to count but we will take Gordon\u2019s word for it that there were at least 150 different varieties, all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=2873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snowdrops Display 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-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gg-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","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=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}