{"id":9057,"date":"2013-03-01T06:32:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T06:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=9057"},"modified":"2021-08-01T07:59:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T06:59:06","slug":"garden-tourism-is-london-the-worlds-gardening-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/garden-tourism-is-london-the-worlds-gardening-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden tourism: &#8216;Is London the World&#8217;s Gardening Capital?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"London Gardens &amp; Parks Walk - design and history garden tour guide\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xYmW8FRWkv8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am a Londoner &#8211; and, with understandable bias, regard London as the capital city of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>world gardens,<\/li>\n<li>garden design<\/li>\n<li>gardening<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As argued in the above video, the reasons for this are both geographical and historical. Britain was emerging from the Pleistocene when horticultural techniques were devised (about 12,000 years ago) and they did not reach Britain until c3,800 BC. The art of making pleasure gardens came to London with the Romans, ended when they left and resumed when the Normans invaded England in 1066. Since then, there has been a steady advance in the popularity of gardening. Long may it continue! Britain is always likely to have a hard time competing with the Mediterranean countries for beach holidays &#8211; but it has very considerable opportunities for developing garden tourism. We were delighted to hear of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gardentourism.blogspot.co.uk\/\">2013 Garden Tourism Conference<\/a> to be held in Toronto, Canada, in March &#8211; and have entered the Gardenvisit.com Website in hopes of receiving an award in the Garden Tourism Website category. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/londongardenswalk\">Further information on the London Gardens Walk &#8211; and free routemaps<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xYmW8FRWkv8\" width=\"775\" height=\"436\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Londoner &#8211; and, with understandable bias, regard London as the capital city of: world gardens, garden design gardening As argued in the above video, the reasons for this are both geographical and historical. Britain was emerging from the Pleistocene when horticultural techniques were devised (about 12,000 years ago) and they did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057"}],"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=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11236,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions\/11236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}