{"id":13535,"date":"2015-06-27T02:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T09:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13535"},"modified":"2015-06-17T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T08:01:00","slug":"garden-sculpture-and-statuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/garden-visits\/garden-sculpture-and-statuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Sculpture and Statuary"},"content":{"rendered":"

For an interesting garden combined with a bit of art you could do worse than visit The Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park at The Hutts, Grewelthorpe near Ripon North Yorkshire.
\nBeware <\/strong>the gardens close from June until April each year as the Himalayan plants are only at their best in spring, so watch the time.
\nThe rhododendrons are worth visiting when in full bloom so it is worth picking your time for a trip although the attached nursery is open by appointment.<\/p>\n

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\nStainless toadstools reflect well in the garden.
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\nThe whole garden is a sculpture. Hewn out of the valley side it comes as a surprise that there is such a garden and sculpture park at The Hutts <\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe many water features in the garden are well augmented by sculptures and statuary. See the May flies in May.<\/p>\n

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\nIt will be a dark day in the garden before the stone eggs under the sculpted duck hatch.
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\nAll gardeners need a hand every now and then. A big hand is even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For an interesting garden combined with a bit of art you could do worse than visit The Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park at The Hutts, Grewelthorpe near Ripon North Yorkshire.
\nBeware <\/strong>the gardens close from June until April each year as the Himalayan plants are at their best in spring. The rhododendrons are worth visiting when in full bloom so it is worth picking your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535","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=13535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}