{"id":1202,"date":"2018-11-12T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:06:41","slug":"the-gardens-of-gunnersbury-10-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"The Gardens of Gunnersbury, 6.30pm, 10 December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the London Parks &amp; Gardens Trust&#8217;s Winter Lectures Val will be presenting the story of the gardens at Gunnersbury Park in West London. Val is co-author with James Wisdom of <em>Gunnersbury Park: the Place and the People<\/em> (Scala Publications). The historic core of the gardens was created for Sir John Maynard&#8217;s Palladian mansion, created during 1658-1663, softened and expanded by Henry Furnese MP who owned it from 1739 to 1756 and embellished by Princess Amelia during 1762-1786. Though the estate was divided for sale in separate lots in 1800 successive owners invested substantially in Gunnersbury. A large area of the property was let to nursery gardeners in the 18th adc 19th century. A branch of the Rothschild family owned much of the estate from 1835, and reunited the separate plots in 1889; in their heyday the Rothschild gardens here were famed for their exotic fruit, their fabulous cut flowers and the orchid collection. In 1926 it became a pubic park and over the last 4 years over \u00a320m has been spent on restoring the gardens and the Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The venue is The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street London EC1M 6EL. Tickets cost \u00a310 for LP&gt; members, \u00a312 for non-members. Full details and how to book can be found on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londongardenstrust.org\/lectures\/index.htm\">web-site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the London Parks &amp; Gardens Trust&#8217;s Winter Lectures Val will be presenting the story of the gardens at Gunnersbury Park in West London. Val is co-author with James Wisdom of Gunnersbury Park: the Place and the People (Scala Publications). The historic core of the gardens was created for Sir John Maynard&#8217;s Palladian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middlesex-gardeners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}