{"id":6089,"date":"2013-12-20T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6089"},"modified":"2013-12-19T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:29:22","slug":"top-10-parks-around-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/top-10-parks-around-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Parks Around the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Park yourself on a bench in one of Britains top parks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1844034984\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1844034984.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top 10 most beautiful parks compiled by Rae Spencer-Jones extracted from  1001 gardens for the Daily Telegraph. If you can cope with 1001 garden visits then good on you&#8230;. but <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1844034984\/richardpettin-21\">read the book first.<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Royal Botanic Garden<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/\"> Kew <\/a> has a tropical plant festival in the glasshouse until March 2010<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Water  &#8211; S<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroyallandscape.co.uk\/\">aville garden<\/a> and Valley garden have a varied and exotic woodland, landscape and garden to visit.<\/li>\n<li>Hylands Park Essex  has a wide variety of interesting flora, fauna. There is also a large variety of mature trees including oak, ash, hornbeam, and field maple, plus an additional 25,000 new trees.<\/li>\n<li> Clumber Country Park Nottinhamshire is ideal for long walks or cycling so you need to be fit.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlisle.gov.uk\/leisure_and_culture\/parks_and_open_spaces\/parks_and_open_spaces\/talkin_tarn.aspx\">Talkin Tarn <\/a> Cumbria nestles in a 165 acre site, containing a glacial tarn surrounded by mature woodland and gentle meadows<\/li>\n<li>Coed y Brenin Gwynedd is Forestry commission land with lots of bike tracks.<\/li>\n<li>Healey Dell Nature Reserve Lancashire sits in a picturesque part of the Spodden Valley on the outskirts of Rochdale. It is rich in wildlife, with a fascinating archaeological history<\/li>\n<li>Stanwick Lakes Northampton   is a unique countryside attraction in the heart of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanwicklakes.org.uk\/stanwick_wildlife.html\">Nene Valley <\/a> very good for wild life.<\/li>\n<li>Normanby Hall Museum and Country Park Lincolnshire with a walled garden, house and farming museum to complement the Park<\/li>\n<li>Vogrie Country Park Edinburgh  has 250 acres of natural trails, a walled garden and ponds. The 19th-century landscape includes trees brought to Scotland by plant collector George Forrest. Great for <a href=\"http:\/\/walking.visitscotland.com\/walks\/centralscotland\/vogrie-tyne-valley-path\">walking<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3592840268\/\" title=\"Lister Park by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3607\/3592840268_ef4deaf653.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Lister Park\"><\/a><br \/>\nLister Park Bradford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park yourself on a bench in one of Britains top parks. Top 10 most beautiful parks compiled by Rae Spencer-Jones extracted from 1001 gardens for the Daily Telegraph. If you can cope with 1001 garden visits then good on you&#8230;. but read the book first. Royal Botanic Garden Kew has a tropical plant festival in the glasshouse until March 2010 Virginia Water &#8211; Saville garden and Valley garden have a varied and exotic woodland, landscape and garden to visit. Hylands&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/top-10-parks-around-the-uk\/\"> 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":[20,42],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-6089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-books","tag-open-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089","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=6089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}