{"id":89097,"date":"2018-05-23T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-a-welsh-garden-at-its-psychedelic-best\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T12:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T05:03:19","slug":"country-diary-a-welsh-garden-at-its-psychedelic-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-a-welsh-garden-at-its-psychedelic-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: a Welsh garden at its psychedelic best"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBodnant Garden, Gwynedd: Rhododendrons and azaleas flash white, pink, red, orange and blue as the oaks awaken from a long winter dreamThese oak leaves open like bloody beef. Not the \u201crich brown-umber hue the oaks unfold\/ When Spring\u2019s young sunshine bathes their trunks in gold\u201d that John Clare described in his poem Wood Pictures in Spring. These are the emerging leaves of a Quercus robur \u201cAtropurpurea\u201d (they will mature to a deep red-purple), a form of English or common oak, growing in a Welsh wood on the ravine of a stream flowing into the Vale of Conwy. Continue reading…
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