{"id":3749,"date":"2010-02-01T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2010-02-01T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:01:45","slug":"february-in-a-medieval-garden-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/february-in-a-medieval-garden-france\/","title":{"rendered":"February in a medieval garden in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/februaryaa1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/februaryaa1.jpg\" alt=\"A medieval French garden - on a cold February day 600 yefars ago\" title=\"A medieval French garden - on a cold day in February\" width=\"775\" height=\"799\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/februaryaa1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/februaryaa1-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/februaryaa1-768x792.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/februaryaa1-624x643.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a>Europe is still frozen but we should not complain &#8211; and perhaps our predecessors did not mind the cold either. This brilliant painting of a medieval garden yard is from <em>Les Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry<\/em>. The painting is dated to c1410 &#8211; so we can celebrate its 600th annniversary. The wattle fencing is exquisite. The sheep are better protected than on a modern farm. The beehives are in good order and produced a more nutritious sweetner than our refined and dangerous sugars.\u00a0 Mum is modest but\u00a0 the young girl and boy are exposing\u00a0 their genitals to the warmth of a fire. It reminds me of a lecture from the president of the students union in my first week at university. He solemnly informed his audience that if, before intercourse, a man spent an hour with his testicles between two lightbulbs it would reduce the risk of an unwanted pregnancy. I never put the theory to the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is still frozen but we should not complain &#8211; and perhaps our predecessors did not mind the cold either. This brilliant painting of a medieval garden yard is from Les Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. The painting is dated to c1410 &#8211; so we can celebrate its 600th annniversary. The wattle fencing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}