{"id":686336,"date":"2026-07-11T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686336\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T17:33:08","slug":"i-thought-it-would-be-nice-to-let-strangers-into-my-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/686336\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I thought it would be nice to let strangers into my garden&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A keen gardener who spent 18 years of love and attention on her garden has told why she opened it up to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lesley Middleton, and her husband Mike from Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, have transformed the garden which goes all around their home on Breck Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middleton, a member of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), revealed her labour of love to the public as part of the society&#8217;s National Garden Scheme, where ordinary householders are encouraged to display their gardens to the public to raise funds for charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have spent hours and hours on this garden and I thought it would be nice to show people what can be done and let strangers into my garden,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A keen gardener who spent 18 years of love and attention on her garden has told why she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}