{"id":30219,"date":"2016-10-16T17:33:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T10:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/english-heritage-mobilises-army-of-bulb-planters-to-fend-off-foreign-invasion\/"},"modified":"2016-10-16T17:42:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T10:42:48","slug":"english-heritage-mobilises-army-of-bulb-planters-to-fend-off-foreign-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/english-heritage-mobilises-army-of-bulb-planters-to-fend-off-foreign-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"English Heritage mobilises army of bulb planters to fend off foreign invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nVolunteers to plant 25,000 bulbs to block relentless march of Spanish bluebells and alien daffodils that threaten native varietiesA small army of bulb planters is being mobilised for the battle to save some of the England\u2019s best-loved flowers, native daffodils and bluebells, from the threat of foreign invasion.English Heritage gardeners and volunteers will be planting 25,000 spring flowering bulbs this week at properties up and down the country from Northumberland to the Isle of Wight, including Charles Darwin\u2019s back garden in Kent, which inspired much of his work, Eltham Palace in London, where Henry VIII was brought up, and Queen Victoria\u2019s beloved Osborne, in an attempt to block the relentless march of Spanish bluebells and alien daffodils. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Volunteers to plant 25,000 bulbs to block relentless march of Spanish bluebells and alien daffodils...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-7Rp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50031,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/old-fashioned-narcissi-are-part-of-the-fabric-of-the-woodland\/","url_meta":{"origin":30219,"position":0},"title":"Old-fashioned narcissi are part of the fabric of the woodland","date":"March 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r St Dominic, Tamar Valley The hardier bulbs have naturalised and merged with bluebells, ferns, dog\u2019s mercury and moschatel, shaded by scrub and treesLucifer, Sunrise, Croesus and Bernardino, narcissi with orange cups and creamy-white petals, should be at their best but hail and wind have battered these successors to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":142766,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/spring-flowers-10-of-the-best-places-in-the-uk-to-see-them-bloom\/","url_meta":{"origin":30219,"position":1},"title":"Spring flowers: 10 of the best places in the UK to see them bloom","date":"February 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Witch hazel and snowdrops, hellebores and daffodils \u2013 with the country set to burst into bloom, we find the best of the season\u2019s first offeringsThe gardening team of this estate near Totnes takes the first few months of the year seriously: spidery yellow witch hazel flowers and snowdrops are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":124632,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/now-is-the-season-to-plant-snowdrops-bluebells-wood-anemones-aconites-and-lily-of-the-valley-alys-fowler\/","url_meta":{"origin":30219,"position":2},"title":"Now is the season to plant snowdrops, bluebells, wood anemones, aconites and lily of the valley | Alys Fowler","date":"February 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Plant bulbs \u2018in the green\u2019 now and gaps under shrubs and trees will soon fill up, bringing beauty to sparse-looking shrubs and hedgesThe awkward bare ankles of a shrub or deciduous hedge are not things of beauty, but there they often are. 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