{"id":1111,"date":"2014-11-30T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T19:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2014-11-23T03:07:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T10:07:23","slug":"copper-beech-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/copper-beech-hedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper Beech Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/copper-beech-hedge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1110\" title=\"copper-beech-hedge\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/copper-beech-hedge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/copper-beech-hedge.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/copper-beech-hedge-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Copper beech is not copper coloured until autumn when the leaves turn to a burnt brown colour. There are green leaved beech hedges and purple leaved copper beech. The leaves stay on the tree until spring when new buds are fit to burst.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Hints about Copper Beech<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The leaves can be a dark purple colour or a bright green but both turn to a similar shade of brown.<\/li>\n<li>Beech can be pruned hard and shaped in to hedges or loose topiary.<\/li>\n<li>Beech is also sold as Fagus sylvatica (purpurea for the purple leaved variety)<\/li>\n<li>Young whips(single stemmed saplings) or 2 foot high trees can be bought inexpensively for hedging or to turn into bonsai.<\/li>\n<li>Read about Beech <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11879\">root and branch review<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This is my favourite poem about Hedges by Les Barker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reg was a lonely glow worm,<br \/>\nAll alone in the big city night;<br \/>\nLady glow worms didn&#8217;t like him,<br \/>\nNever really thought him too bright.<\/p>\n<p>She was just a red glow in the gutter,<br \/>\nAlone, perhaps lonely like him;<br \/>\nHis heart simply melted like butter;<br \/>\nHer light made all others seem dim. <\/p>\n<p>But tonight he would not be requited;<br \/>\nHer warm love could never be Reg&#8217;s<br \/>\nFor he was a lonely glow worm<br \/>\nAnd she was a Benson and Hedges. <\/p>\n<p>He asked did she come here often,<br \/>\nAsked if she fancied a drink;<br \/>\nShe might perhaps like a light ale;<br \/>\nNo reply; not a nod; not a wink. <\/p>\n<p>She was just a red glow in the gutter,<br \/>\nSmouldering; sultry; aloof.<br \/>\nNot one single word did she utter,<br \/>\nAnd Reg never guessed at the truth. <\/p>\n<p>His heart was aflame with desire,<br \/>\nBut her fire was a pyre; it was Reg&#8217;s;<br \/>\nFor he was a lonely glow worm<br \/>\nAnd she was a Benson and Hedges. <\/p>\n<p>He desperately wanted to know her,<br \/>\nThere in the big city night;<br \/>\nAnd there, like a moth to the flame,<br \/>\nReg was drawn to the light. <\/p>\n<p>She was just a red glow in the gutter,<br \/>\nA beacon of love in the mist;<br \/>\nShe lay where some smoker had put her<br \/>\nAnd Reg could no longer resist. <\/p>\n<p>He burned more than his fingers that evening;<br \/>\nNow he carries a torch with scorched edges,<br \/>\nFor he was a lonely glow worm<br \/>\nAnd she was a Benson and Hedges. <\/p>\n<p>>He fell like a fool for a cigarette,<br \/>\nFor passion can have strange effects<br \/>\nAnd his contact lenses were missing,<br \/>\nAnd a tortoise had trod on his specs. <\/p>\n<p>She was just a red glow in the gutter,<br \/>\nUnmoved by wit, wisdom or wealth,<br \/>\nSat a firefly on fire and a-flutter<br \/>\nAnd seriously damaged his health.<\/p>\n<p>All she left was a small pile of charcoal;<br \/>\nRemember those embers are Reg&#8217;s,<br \/>\nFor he was a lonely glow worm<br \/>\nAnd she was a Benson and Hedges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsackroyd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visit Les Barker&#8217;s Website<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.mrsackroyd.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beech hedges keep their leaves through winter if you clip them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","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=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}