{"id":25664,"date":"2020-07-13T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T21:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25664"},"modified":"2020-07-13T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T21:49:57","slug":"barton-fields-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25664","title":{"rendered":"Barton Fields in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20071113.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields\" \/><br \/>\nI walked round Barton Fields, cared for by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abnats.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Naturalists<\/a>, on a warm sunny day in the middle of July. I saw butterflies and bees, and beetles, ladybirds and damselflies. There were many other creatures that were too well hidden.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20071140.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields\" \/><br \/>\nBerries and hips and haws are growing to maturity. The first blackberries will soon be ripe and ready to pick.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20071125.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields\" \/><br \/>\nMany wild flowers have already bloomed in March or April, May or June and are turning to seed, but other flowers are coming into bloom. These ragworts can be seen with many smaller yellow flowers behind.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20071126a.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields\" \/><br \/>\nLong grasses mature and their seedheads are ready to drop their seed and increase their yeild next year. Other plants rise and unfurl.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20071129.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields\" \/><br \/>\nThe taller growing plants began on a race to the sky, and only in July produce flowers on tall stalks, among a jungle of other tall growing plants.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20071142.jpg\" alt=\"Barton Fields\" \/><br \/>\nInsects come together on a bed of flowers and\u00a0spread pollen to nearby flowers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked round Barton Fields, cared for by the Abingdon Naturalists, on a warm sunny day in the middle of July. I saw butterflies and bees, and beetles, ladybirds and damselflies. There were many other creatures that were too well hidden. Berries and hips and haws are growing to maturity. The first blackberries will soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25664","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=25664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}