{"id":75209,"date":"2017-12-24T00:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T17:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-demanding-ladies-blossom-in-a-victorian-time-warp\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T18:04:50","slug":"country-diary-demanding-ladies-blossom-in-a-victorian-time-warp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-demanding-ladies-blossom-in-a-victorian-time-warp\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: 'Demanding Ladies' blossom in a Victorian time warp"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHawkhurst, Kent One of Britain\u2019s largest collections of Victorian glasshouses is being restored thanks to the fond memories of a wartime evacueeJust outside Hawkhurst, in the Kentish Weald, there\u2019s a walled garden so quintessentially Victorian that stepping inside feels like time-travelling. Rustic brickwork glows in the winter sun; in bright corners the skeletal arms of buddleia seem to beckon the ghosts of bees; and everywhere you look the light is reflected by shimmering glass.There are 13 crumbling, deeply atmospheric glasshouses \u2013 the \u201cDemanding Ladies\u201d \u2013 most of them more than 140 years old. There\u2019s a shaded fern house, a long, leaning peach case, a sunken glass corridor for melons and pineapples, a pelargonium house, a carnation house, a hot house with great vats that once steamed with heated water. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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