{"id":35117,"date":"2023-04-14T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/?p=35117"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T13:45:25","slug":"fabulous-flowers-food-and-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/fabulous-flowers-food-and-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous Flowers, Food and Fun (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember writing a few weeks ago how the weather hadn\u2019t been that great and that a late Spring would bloom pretty soon.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The weather has been pretty shh\u2026. <em>er&#8230; shocking<\/em> ever since and this week has frustratingly followed in the same way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thankfully the weekend and next week ARE looking pretty promising &#8211; certainly drier and the sun is due to make appearances &#8211; and that can mean only one thing: Spring Colour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Garden Centre is alive with vibrant, beautiful and uplifting colours right now and customer Lesley Spokes wrote on our Facebook page <em>\u201cWent yesterday and the plants looked absolutely stunning. The new extended restaurant is great too, we had a really nice lunch.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With so much to see &#8211; with the best value for miles around, we\u2019d love to invite you to see for yourself this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-content\/uploads\/spring-colour2.jpg\" alt=\"best garden centre to visit\" width=\"1200\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-content\/uploads\/spring-colour2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-content\/uploads\/spring-colour2-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-content\/uploads\/spring-colour2-600x396.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Mmmmm<\/em> talking of food, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/northamptonshire-restaurant\/\">Canalside restaurant <\/a>have been extra busy this week in photographing a number of delightful dishes. From brilliant breakfasts, mouth-watering main meals to absolutely adorable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiltonlocksgardenvillage.com\/product\/afternoon-tea\/\">Afternoon Tea<\/a> they have all been snapped. <em>What do you think?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-content\/uploads\/canalside-cafe.jpg\" alt=\"best garden centre restaurant\" width=\"1200\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-content\/uploads\/canalside-cafe.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-content\/uploads\/canalside-cafe-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-content\/uploads\/canalside-cafe-600x396.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has been really great to see so many families over the Easter break, many taking part in our Easter Egg hunt, visiting the animals for one of our (rather popular and such fun) animals cuddle days, or bringing their own four-legged furry friends for our Doggy Brunch or for a trip out.<\/p>\n<p>We love to see everything &#8211;<em> just perhaps time to lay off the rain, for now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>See you and your rays of sunshine soon<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>WLGV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember writing a few weeks ago how the weather hadn\u2019t been that great and that a late Spring would bloom pretty soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,967,14,52],"tags":[93,943,2196,2197,934],"class_list":["post-35117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canalside","category-garden","category-garden-centre","category-news","tag-afternoon-tea","tag-garden-centre","tag-garden-nursery","tag-independent-garden-centre","tag-northamptonshire-garden-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36861,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117\/revisions\/36861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlgv.co.uk\/whiltonlocksgardenvillage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}