{"id":10398,"date":"2025-11-09T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:34:27","slug":"biddulph-grange-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10398","title":{"rendered":"Biddulph Grange Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The gardens at Biddulph Grange Gardens, a National Trust property, have two displays of interest to me: The Stumpery (which I understand was the first ever created) and the Dahlias (when in flower). Here are some views from a visit earlier this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An orange Dahlia with a red centre at Biddulph Grange Gardens
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A pale lilac Dahlia with a darker centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A bold pink Dahlia with a deeper red centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next are some views of the stumpery – this is a display of old tree stumps that are inverted to show the patterns and architecture of the roots. Ferns and other plants are set amongst the roots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the stumpery at Biddulph Grange Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A second view of the stumpery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A closer view of the roots of a larger stump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally, a nice area is the Lime Avenue to the side of the garden:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lime avenue at Biddulph Grange Gardens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is a place we visit several times a year – it is interesting to see how the garden changes through the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The gardens at Biddulph Grange Gardens, a National Trust property, have two displays of interest to me: The Stumpery (which I understand was the first ever created) and the Dahlias (when in flower). Here are some views from a visit earlier this year: Next are some views of the stumpery – this is a display … Continue reading “Biddulph Grange Garden”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,52,102,96,3,94,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-garden","category-historic-houses-and-gardens","category-national-trust","category-photography","category-staffordshire","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10407,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}