{"id":4105,"date":"2010-07-18T07:27:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T12:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2017-07-17T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T15:46:27","slug":"tatton-park-beech-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-visits\/tatton-park-beech-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatton Park: Beech Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThere are in our existence spots of time,<br \/>\nThat with distinct pre-eminence retain<br \/>\nA renovating virtue, whence, depressed&#8230;<br \/>\nIn trivial occupations, and the round<br \/>\nOf ordinary intercourse, our minds<br \/>\nAre nourished and invisibly repaired;<br \/>\n&#8212; William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book Twelfth\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI have been holding the memory of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tattonpark.org.uk\/NR\/rdonlyres\/B502C455-61C7-445D-88B5-DB34860ACEE3\/0\/Gatemapwithwalks2010.pdf\">walk through Tatton Park<\/a> in reserve, waiting for a miserable summer day in Austin to pull it out and use it like a charm against the heat.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nI began at the Knutsford entrance and walked through the beech wood to Tatton Park garden. Almost as I begin my walk, a misty rain starts to fall. The trees are so dense that very little rain falls on me.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\"> In Austin we are suffering drought but Cheshire has had a rainy summer. I enjoy the novelty of picking my way down the muddy track. Sometimes there are huge mucky puddles and I have to backtrack to get around them. The walk is so dark and wet that even though it is just two rows of trees lining a path, I can imagine that I&#8217;m lost deep in a forest.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/TattonPark4.jpg\" alt=\"Tatton Park\" width=\"400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMy only company is the sheep.\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/TattonPark5.jpg\" alt=\"Tatton Park\" width=\"400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI visit the gardens and have lunch the Stables Restaurant. They are promoting locally grown (Cheshire) food including vegetables grown at Tatton. This is the best meal I&#8217;ve ever had at an RHS garden. At other garden shops, it&#8217;s usually just a supermarket scone and teabag in hot water for &#8220;tea&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nI thought I&#8217;d be energized by lunch enough to tour the gardens more. I&#8217;ve been here so many times that after I visit my favorite spots I decide it&#8217;s better to begin the walk home.\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/TattonPark2.jpg\" alt=\"Tatton Park\" width=\"400px\" \/><br \/><i>Of all the trees, I loved this one the best.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n I linger. I loll. I meander. I soak up the impressions, stopping often to take photographs or to write. It takes almost three hours to get home: one hour down beech walk, and two hours from Knutsford to Mobberley.\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/TattonPark1.jpg\" alt=\"Tatton Park\" width=\"400px\" \/\n\/><br \/><i>Melchett Mere<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile here I stand, not only with the sense<br \/>\nOf present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts<br \/>\nThat in this moment there is life and food<br \/>\nFor future years.<br \/>\n&#8212; William Wordsworth, Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Related<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2275\">Tatton Park: The Italian Garden<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2276\">Tatton Park: The Japanese Garden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/TattonPark3.jpg\" alt=\"Tatton Park\" width=\"400px\" \/\n\/><br \/><i>2008-08-22. The beech walk, Tatton Park.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[111,165,472],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5161,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/5161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}