{"id":18761,"date":"2017-06-14T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18761"},"modified":"2017-06-14T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T21:00:53","slug":"june-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18761","title":{"rendered":"June Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061109.jpg\" alt=\"June Flowers\" \/><br \/>\nThere are lots of June flowers among the grasses of Barton Fields alongside the Sustrans Cycle Way. Somebody has put in equidistant stakes in the ground as part of a butterfly counting study &#8211; the email address is Exeter University.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061101.jpg\" alt=\"June Flowers\" \/><br \/>\nThe area has been looked after by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abnats.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Naturalists&#8217; Society<\/a> since 1999. Their website says &#8220;<i>97% of our lowland native wildflower meadows have disappeared since the 1950\u2019s which has sent many of our wild bee and butterflies dependent upon them into a steep decline. <\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061114.jpg\" alt=\"June Flowers\" \/><br \/>\n<em>So we began our native wildflower meadow restoration at Barton Fields in 2009 to aid their recovery.<\/em>&#8220;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061106.jpg\" alt=\"June Flowers\" \/><br \/>\nNearby, clumps of brambles are in flower, and they too attract a lot of bees<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17061105.jpg\" alt=\"June Flowers\" \/><br \/>\nand butterflies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of June flowers among the grasses of Barton Fields alongside the Sustrans Cycle Way. Somebody has put in equidistant stakes in the ground as part of a butterfly counting study &#8211; the email address is Exeter University. The area has been looked after by the Abingdon Naturalists&#8217; Society since 1999. Their website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}