{"id":8252,"date":"2022-07-05T15:13:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:25:44","slug":"churchillian-delights-at-chartwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/05\/churchillian-delights-at-chartwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Churchillian Delights at Chartwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwells-glorious-walled-gardens-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwells-glorious-walled-gardens-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwells-glorious-walled-gardens-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwells-glorious-walled-gardens-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwells-glorious-walled-gardens-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwells-glorious-walled-gardens-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwells-glorious-walled-gardens-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Chartwell&#8217;s glorious walled gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"938\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-Emperor-dragonfly-ovipositing-in-golden-orfe-pond-1024x938.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-Emperor-dragonfly-ovipositing-in-golden-orfe-pond-1024x938.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-Emperor-dragonfly-ovipositing-in-golden-orfe-pond-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-Emperor-dragonfly-ovipositing-in-golden-orfe-pond-150x137.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-Emperor-dragonfly-ovipositing-in-golden-orfe-pond-768x703.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-Emperor-dragonfly-ovipositing-in-golden-orfe-pond-1536x1406.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-Emperor-dragonfly-ovipositing-in-golden-orfe-pond-2048x1875.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Female Emperor Dragonfly ovipositing in Churchill&#8217;s Golden Orfe (Goldfish) Pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Old-fashioned-Rhubarb-forcing-pots-at-Chartwell-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Old-fashioned-Rhubarb-forcing-pots-at-Chartwell-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Old-fashioned-Rhubarb-forcing-pots-at-Chartwell-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Old-fashioned-Rhubarb-forcing-pots-at-Chartwell-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Old-fashioned-Rhubarb-forcing-pots-at-Chartwell-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Old-fashioned-Rhubarb-forcing-pots-at-Chartwell-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Old-fashioned-Rhubarb-forcing-pots-at-Chartwell.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Old-fashioned Rhubarb-forcing pots. The roots are grown to be big and strong, then planted out. Early in spring, the roots are covered with the pot, so the leaves etiolate, growing tall leaf-stalks (petioles) very rapidly as the plants search desperately for light. The result: big early rhubarb, without bitterness, greenness, or toughness, ready to poach gently in sugared water and serve.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-wonderful-on-many-levels-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-wonderful-on-many-levels-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-wonderful-on-many-levels-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-wonderful-on-many-levels-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-wonderful-on-many-levels-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-wonderful-on-many-levels-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Chartwell-wonderful-on-many-levels-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Chartwell, wonderful on many levels (including the garden&#8217;s numerous terraces) &#8211; historical, political, landscape, garden design, and sheer colour and space, delightful. The house dates back to Tudor times, c. 1550, though there was some sort of building here centuries before that. In the foreground, the wide meadow contains an  area left to grow tall full of Knapweed and other wild flowers and grasses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[1697,428,1698],"class_list":["post-8252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-chartwell","tag-emperor-dragonfly","tag-rhubarb-forcing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8261,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/8261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}