{"id":10469,"date":"2014-08-18T10:02:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10469"},"modified":"2014-08-13T05:33:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T12:33:34","slug":"twin-oaks-or-two-oaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/twin-oaks-or-two-oaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Oaks or Two Oaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Quercus bonsai by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4225188351\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2664\/4225188351_42d3db43d6.jpg\" alt=\"Quercus bonsai\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It takes a long time, a lot of skill and patience to grow an Oak bonsai like the one above.<br \/>\nWith the right care and attention a bonsai will last for decades and longer.<\/p>\n<p>Given that observation it takes a lot longer to grow a mature Oak in a forest or woodland.<\/p>\n<p>Left to their own devices trees can take on extraordinary shapes.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"may12 002 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4232919367\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4011\/4232919367_01b7298991.jpg\" alt=\"may12 002\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like the oil painting Two Oaks by Jan van Goyen from 1642 available to view on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wahooart.com\/A55A04\/w.nsf\/Opra\/BRUE-8CABGH\">Wahoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a long time, a lot of skill and patience to grow an Oak bonsai like the one above. With the right care and attention a bonsai will last for decades and longer. Given that observation it takes a lot longer to grow a mature Oak in a forest or woodland. Left to their own devices trees can take on extraordinary shapes. I like the oil painting Two Oaks by Jan van Goyen from 1642 available to view on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/twin-oaks-or-two-oaks\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}