{"id":20771,"date":"2018-07-04T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T20:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20771"},"modified":"2018-07-04T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T20:35:05","slug":"barton-fields-cornfield-annuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20771","title":{"rendered":"Barton Fields (Cornfield Annuals)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou to David for this report &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18070402.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers Coming Home\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Naturalists Society&#8217;s Green Team have looked after Barton Fields Wildlife Site for the last 15 years.&nbsp; During that time they have worked to enhanced the grassland by sowing and planting native flowering plants.&nbsp; Last year as a trial, they sowed a small patch of &#8216;cornfield annuals&#8217;.&nbsp; These are annual flowering plants which used to be found in cereal fields before the widespread use of herbicides.&nbsp; The trial was successful and this year, helped greatly by a team from Sophos, they have sown four more patches of these annuals.&nbsp; The Sophos staff can be seen working hard one day in March (C Graham Bateman)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18070401.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers Coming Home\" \/><br \/>\nand the resulting display this month (C David Guyoncourt).&nbsp; The flowers benefit bees and other insects and the public seem to like them too. These plants self-seed, so we hope the display will be repeated each year, provided that encroaching grasses are removed by our team during the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankyou to David for this report &#8230; Abingdon Naturalists Society&#8217;s Green Team have looked after Barton Fields Wildlife Site for the last 15 years.&nbsp; During that time they have worked to enhanced the grassland by sowing and planting native flowering plants.&nbsp; Last year as a trial, they sowed a small patch of &#8216;cornfield annuals&#8217;.&nbsp; These [&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-20771","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\/20771","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=20771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}