{"id":5071,"date":"2010-08-08T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T06:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2010-08-08T06:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T06:30:33","slug":"global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/global-warming-and-cultivation-of-the-grape-vine-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warming and cultivation of the grape vine in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/grape_vine_pergola_fishborne1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/grape_vine_pergola_fishborne1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"grape_vine_pergola_fishborne\" width=\"775\" height=\"435\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/grape_vine_pergola_fishborne1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/grape_vine_pergola_fishborne1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/grape_vine_pergola_fishborne1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/grape_vine_pergola_fishborne1-624x350.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a>When John Harvey became President of the Garden History Society, in 1984, the great medieval historian suggested bringing back the grape vine as an ornamental plant. He explained that: &#8216;From very early times until the eighteenth century the vine was one of our chief garden plants, quite apart from attempts to make wine in England or to obtain dessert grapes &#8211; though both these enterprises had considerable success. As a climber, against walls or used to cover arbours and tunnels, the vine is outstandingly beautiful and, in several varieties, completely hardy in most of Britain. This is brought home to us when we realize that one of the largest and oldest vines ever grown was in the open air in the High Street of Northallerton, surely one of the coldest and draughtiest towns in England. The grape-vine was, and could be again, one of the greatest beauties of our gardens.&#8217; (<em>Journal of the Garden History Society<\/em>, Spring 1984, p.5). The seemingly ever-warmer summers with which Global Warming threatens to bless England reinforces Harvey&#8217;s suggestion: Bring Back The Grape Vine.<br \/>\nThe vine was probably introduced to England by the Romans and the image (courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gauiscaecilius\/\">Gauis Caecilius<\/a>) is of a vine pergola at <a href=\"\/garden\/fishbourne_roman_palace_garden\">Fisbourne Roman Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When John Harvey became President of the Garden History Society, in 1984, the great medieval historian suggested bringing back the grape vine as an ornamental plant. He explained that: &#8216;From very early times until the eighteenth century the vine was one of our chief garden plants, quite apart from attempts to make wine in England [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071"}],"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=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}