{"id":1991,"date":"2022-06-23T19:02:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T01:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T18:33:30","slug":"eden-project-9-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/uk-2022\/cornwall\/eden-project-9-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Eden Project 9 May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tim Smit&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edenproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eden Project<\/a>, built in a deep china clay pit, is dominated by huge domed enclosures emulating two natural biomes: A rainforest environment (it has the largest indoor rainforest in the world) and the second, a Mediterranean environment. Outside are botanical gardens with native and near native British plants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/437304BB-F071-4595-B684-5C692F590849.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/E35648E1-8D8C-4E32-AC2D-BC2AC963671A.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Mediterranean-Californian system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC01279.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC01279.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1994\" width=\"389\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC01279.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC01279-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1BBD1BEE-04B3-400E-BDD3-7EAECAB43E74.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Waterfalls and streams, as well as &#8220;rain&#8221; humidify the rainforests.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6A4E2EC6-A9AC-4BB5-A2B4-2052BCCF5D06.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>The jungle was indeed hot and humid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Exploring the gardens within and without takes at least a few hours, not counting the time to hike from and back up the hill to the carpark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/edenProject.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"786\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/edenProject.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/edenProject.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/edenProject-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The X marks our row in the carpark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Smit&#8217;s Eden Project, built in a deep china clay pit, is dominated by huge domed enclosures emulating two natural biomes: A rainforest environment (it has the largest indoor rainforest in the world) and the second, a Mediterranean environment. Outside are botanical gardens with native and near native British plants. Exploring the gardens within and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/uk-2022\/cornwall\/eden-project-9-may\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eden Project 9 May<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cornwall","tag-gardens","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}