{"id":108912,"date":"2019-07-12T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-this-castle-could-never-be-english-unlike-the-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2019-07-12T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T05:09:57","slug":"country-diary-this-castle-could-never-be-english-unlike-the-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-this-castle-could-never-be-english-unlike-the-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: this castle could never be English \u2013 unlike the wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nV\u00e4nersk\u00e4rg\u00e5rden, Sweden: If the cranes seem the most exotic birds here, that will change as they are returned to BritainBuilt on a promontory at Lake V\u00e4nern, L\u00e4ck\u00f6 Castle is a baroque confection of whitewashed walls and red-roofed domes and turrets, a vivid contrast to the grey stone fortresses of Northumberland. Within its high walls, its English gardener, Simon Irvine, grows salad crops in sensuous waving curves to show the beauty of vegetables. From the track to the castle I breathe in the strong sweet orange scent of Philadelphus from rounded white clouds of bushes. A yellowhammer calls from deep in a rose thicket, a summer sound among scented arcs of pink flowers. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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