{"id":9507,"date":"2025-04-26T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2025-04-26T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T14:41:39","slug":"melford-hall-estate-on-a-fine-spring-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9507","title":{"rendered":"Melford Hall Estate on a fine spring day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another National Trust property we visited on our recent trip to East Anglia was Melford Hall. As is usual with the National Trust the Hall, grounds and gardens were well maintained as was the further estate. Below is a selection of images taken on this visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melford Hall viewed from the Banqueting House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On this visit it appeared to be ‘peak daffodil’ with some beautiful blooms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fine dislaly of daffodils on the slopes near the ‘dry moat’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the West Garden: White daffodils with a salmon-pink trumpet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A panoramic view of the entrance to the house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We followed up the visit to the house with a walk around the parkland following the mown paths. Near the start of the walk is a collection of old oak trees estimated to be between 800 and 1000 years old. Although they all looked alive, a couple seemed to be only just so:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first of the old oaks that looks mostly dead. There are leaf buds on some of the smaller branches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A line of 4 of the old oak trees. You can see more early foliage on these ones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I never cease to be amazed at the damage the trees can suffer yet they still grow:<\/p>\n\n\n

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One of the oaks showing extensive damage to the trunk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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The base of this old tree seems to show eyes, a bulbous nose and an open mouth. Treebeard lives! (a ‘Lord of the Rings’ reference)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This final panoramic view shows a line of trees coming into leaf. What doesn’t show in a photograph is the way they were glistening in the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A panoramic view of a line of trees within the park with sheep grazing before them<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was a lovely visit on a fine day. The volunteer staff at the visitor centre were very pleasant and helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally a #imagedump of the photos taken used in my digital album:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another National Trust property we visited on our recent trip to East Anglia was Melford Hall. As is usual with the National Trust the Hall, grounds and gardens were well maintained as was the further estate. Below is a selection of images taken on this visit: On this visit it appeared to be ‘peak daffodil’ … Continue reading “Melford Hall Estate on a fine spring day”<\/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":[26,52,102,145,11,96,71,3,87,97,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-garden","category-historic-houses-and-gardens","category-imagedump","category-landscape","category-national-trust","category-panoramas","category-photography","category-rural","category-spring","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507","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=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9523,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions\/9523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}