{"id":2649,"date":"2022-08-09T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2022-08-09T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T17:07:04","slug":"the-avoncliff-mulberry-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/the-avoncliff-mulberry-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Avoncliff Mulberry Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2651\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/plant-tree-900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2651\" class=\"wp-image-2651 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/plant-tree-900-785x454.jpg\" alt=\"Jill planting the Mulberry tree.\" width=\"614\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/plant-tree-900-785x454.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/plant-tree-900-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/plant-tree-900-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/plant-tree-900.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jill planting the Mulberry tree.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jill Phipps lived in the village for many years \u2013 she met and married John who was a great friend of the boating community. Sadly John died in the late 1990s and a Mulberry Tree was planted in his memory.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Greaves, a blacksmith artist who lives on a boat with a forge towed behind, created a wonderful iron tree guard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangreaves.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.Briangreaves.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2650\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/trevor-mulberry-900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2650\" class=\"wp-image-2650 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/trevor-mulberry-900-785x382.jpg\" alt=\"The tree in 2022\" width=\"615\" height=\"309\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tree in 2022<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year the tree had outgrown the guard and it was recovered and returned to Jill. The tree produces plenty of fruit which visitors help themselves to and then realise that Mulberry juice can be akin to a permanent marker!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Phipps lived in the village for many years \u2013 she met and married John who was a great friend of the boating community. Sadly John died in the late 1990s and a Mulberry Tree was planted in his memory. Brian Greaves, a blacksmith artist who lives on a boat with a forge towed behind, created a wonderful iron tree guard. www.Briangreaves.com Last year the tree had outgrown the guard and it was recovered and returned to Jill. The tree produces plenty of fruit which visitors help themselves to and then realise that Mulberry juice can be akin to a permanent marker! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avoncliff.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}