{"id":4364,"date":"2010-04-29T20:01:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2019-02-28T07:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T07:13:42","slug":"the-landscape-man-matthew-wilson-at-hedingham-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-landscape-man-matthew-wilson-at-hedingham-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Landscape Man: Matthew Wilson at Hedingham Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hedingham Castle in Essex was the subject of the second <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/the-landscape-man-matthew-wilson-on-channel-4\/\">Landscape Man series<\/a>.The owner&#8217;s wife, Demetra Lindsay, a garden designer, thought &#8216;something a little more formal would be a bit of contrast&#8217;. So they converted the swimming pool into &#8216;formal pond&#8217; and put in a semi-Islamic water channel edged with granite cadged from a sponsor. Granite is of course a traditional material &#8211; for tomb stones. Matthew Wilson made the un-profound remark that the grounds were being &#8216;restored to their former glory&#8217;. The owners&#8217; design objective was to generate dosh by letting the place as weddings venue. The estate also contains a really fine Norman keep (dating from 1140) as well as a decent eighteenth century mansion. What should they have done? Something better: less costly, more imaginative, more beautiful, more romantic, more appropriate &#8211; and designed to create amazing opportunities for wedding photographers. [See note on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden_wedding_marriage_venues\">wedding photography in heritage gardens<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hedingham Castle in Essex was the subject of the second Landscape Man series.The owner&#8217;s wife, Demetra Lindsay, a garden designer, thought &#8216;something a little more formal would be a bit of contrast&#8217;. So they converted the swimming pool into &#8216;formal pond&#8217; and put in a semi-Islamic water channel edged with granite cadged from a sponsor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364"}],"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=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11131,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/11131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}