{"id":6372,"date":"2022-07-01T15:56:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T02:13:29","slug":"exploring-blair-castle-finding-little-reminders-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2022\/07\/exploring-blair-castle-finding-little-reminders-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Blair Castle – Finding Little Reminders of Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blair Castle is truly a masterpiece and was by far my hidden gem of the trip. It is an absolutely beautiful castle with a nine-acre garden, deer park, a ruined Kirk, and extensive wooded grove space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By this point in our trip, however, I was feeling very homesick. I was overwhelmed with the thought of wanting to go home, and felt as if I was struggling to find ways to connect the two together. That was until I stepped into Hercules Garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hercules Garden Signage <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As we came in the garden, I began reading the carved quotes on either side of the main gate. I quickly was flooded with memories of my time spent in botanical gardens in the states – albeit this one is on a completely different level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This garden had been completely restored to the original design, down to the statue of Hercules that overlooks this nine-acre section of the estate. Completed with landscape ponds, a folly, a Chinese bridge, and an orchard comprised of more than 100 fruit trees, it truly was picturesque. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we walked and talked, I started to be reminded of so much from back home. From the similar plant life (so many geraniums in London and now what I believed to be chives here), I truly could see a little piece of home everywhere I looked. It made me reminisce on what I love so much about home, and what I also loved about the many stops along the way on our trip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abundance of Plant Life – Hercules Garden at Blair Castle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stepping inside this wonderland truly brought the spirit of home back into this horticulture enthusiast’s heart. It reminded me so much of many trips back at home, and brought a small reminder of why experiences like these matter so much. No matter where you are, always stop and admire the little things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blair Castle is truly a masterpiece and was by far my hidden gem of the trip. It is an absolutely beautiful castle with a nine-acre garden, deer park, a ruined Kirk, and extensive wooded grove space. By this point in our trip, however, I was feeling very homesick. I was overwhelmed with the thought of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,38,85,7,11,105],"tags":[97,103,77,101,100],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-led","category-program-type","category-scotland","category-semester","category-summer","category-youth-engagement-in-agriculture","tag-agdawgabroad","tag-studyabroad","tag-agriculture","tag-caes","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6826,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}