{"id":1380,"date":"2025-06-25T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:39:43","slug":"open-garden-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"Open garden success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many of us know Anita Dempsey as the excellent leader of our Move It or Lose It class on Thursdays. She is also a passionate gardener and she opened her garden to visitors in late June.  It was during one of our heatwaves with very high temperatures forecast for the afternoon. Many people decided to avoid that by coming first thing. By 10 o&#8217;clock it was standing room only in her kitchen and her husband was kept very busy serving teas and coffees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The garden is lovely and a great illustration of what you can do in an otherwise conventional long thin plot. It is full of interest and you feel as though you are going from &#8220;room to room&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She donated the amazing sum of \u00a3507 to us &#8211; and the same amount went to her other chosen charity: Phyllis Tuckwell. Over \u00a31000 raised altogether. Wow! and well done Anita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us know Anita Dempsey as the excellent leader of our Move It or Lose It class on Thursdays. She is also a passionate gardener and she opened her garden to visitors in late June. It was during one of our heatwaves with very high temperatures forecast for the afternoon. Many people decided to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open garden success&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}