{"id":5760,"date":"2010-10-17T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2010-10-17T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T16:13:39","slug":"nonsuch-tudor-palace-garden-in-ewell-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/nonsuch-tudor-palace-garden-in-ewell-surrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonsuch Tudor Palace Garden in Ewell, Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The autumn weather was beautiful and I went to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/nonsuch_palace\">Nonsuch garden <\/a>today. Little survives and I agree with the l<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk\/NonsuchTrail.html\">ocal Nonsuch historians<\/a> that it represents &#8216;both a responsibility and a challenge.. [regarding] the proper management, preservation, and presentation of the site of one of the great houses and gardens of England&#8217;. A simple first step would be to attempt a re-creation of one of the Knot gardens shown on <a href=\"http:\/\/ads.ahds.ac.uk\/catalogue\/adsdata\/arch-457-1\/dissemination\/pdf\/vol01\/vol01_05\/01_05_111_113.pdf\">John Speed&#8217;s plan of Nonsuch<\/a>. The plan was drawn in 1610 and a re-created knot would make a great contribution to garden history, for a small outlay. Since various interpretations of Speed&#8217;s drawing are possible, a different knot could be produced each year and they could become famous.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5763\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/nonsuch_palace_garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/nonsuch_palace_garden.jpg\" alt=\"The photograph of Nonsuch (and the painting on the board) are approximately from the bottom of the palace plan\" title=\"nonsuch_palace_garden\" width=\"775\" height=\"517\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/nonsuch_palace_garden.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/nonsuch_palace_garden-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/nonsuch_palace_garden-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/nonsuch_palace_garden-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The photograph of Nonsuch (and the painting on the board) are approximately from the bottom of the palace plan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The autumn weather was beautiful and I went to see the Nonsuch garden today. Little survives and I agree with the local Nonsuch historians that it represents &#8216;both a responsibility and a challenge.. [regarding] the proper management, preservation, and presentation of the site of one of the great houses and gardens of England&#8217;. A simple [&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\/5760"}],"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=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}