{"id":168,"date":"2006-12-23T15:59:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=168"},"modified":"2006-12-31T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T15:59:44","slug":"great-dixter-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Great Dixter Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through a friend of a friend we managed to get a nice day out at Great Dixter gardens. There is a web site that tells you all about it <a title=\"Great Dixter\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatdixter.co.uk\/\">here<\/a>.  A fantastic old  house and formal gardens, and as it was closed for the season, there was just us and the gardening crew there.<\/p>\n<p>Winter in gardens is an interesting time.  You can see the structure of the garden without being distracted by all the pretty colours around. There was still a bit of colour around to look at too. And some great topriary. Must be quite a job to prune them all.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img id=\"image169\" alt=\"Topiary\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dixtertop.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An unexpected highlight was watching a guy up a tree.  That might not sound that exciting, but when they&#8217;re chopping down the tree that they happen to be up at the time, it&#8217;s more than interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in front of the roaring  fire in the 15th century solar after a nice luch was so cosy and nice.  Almost sleep inducing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img id=\"image170\" alt=\"Solar\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dixtersolar.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Oh! And I have a new found respect for, and perhaps understand attraction to, Dashounds.  They&#8217;re actually quite cute.  And solid bloody dogs too! And I think the thing that surprised me most about them was just how fast they can get up stairs!  In fact, I think they moved fastest when climbing them.  Somewhat odd!<\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;ve seen it in winter, we&#8217;re definitelly going to have to go back to see it at it&#8217;s best in spring\/summer.<\/p>\n<p>And huge thanks to all the guys there for letting us wander around like we owned the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a friend of a friend we managed to get a nice day out at Great Dixter gardens. There is a web site that tells you all about it here. A fantastic old house and formal gardens, and as it was closed for the season, there was just us and the gardening crew there. Winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}