{"id":31012,"date":"2023-07-12T22:01:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31012"},"modified":"2023-07-12T22:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:01:50","slug":"increasing-biodiversity-in-the-abbey-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31012","title":{"rendered":"Increasing biodiversity in the Abbey Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023071205.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn May 2023, the Vale of White Horse District Council launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/vale-of-white-horse-district-council\/parking-roads-and-streets\/grounds-maintenance\/grass-cutting\/\">\u2018Let It Bee\u2019 campaign<\/a>\u00a0to increase biodiversity on council-owned land by allowing wildflowers and plants to grow on specific sites.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the \u2018Let It Bee\u2019 campaign, a much larger area of the Abbey Meadows in Abingdon has been allowed to grow, as well as other district sites, including Tilsley Park, White Horse Leisure Centre, and Rye Farm.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023071202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe wildflower maze in the Abbey Meadows shows what can be done as it has been left to grow for a few years now, and has a wide variety of wildflowers, including lady&#8217;s bedstraw,\u00a0 vetch, yarrow and meadow scabious.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023071204.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe flowers attract various insects, including bees and butterflies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2023, the Vale of White Horse District Council launched the \u2018Let It Bee\u2019 campaign\u00a0to increase biodiversity on council-owned land by allowing wildflowers and plants to grow on specific sites. As part of the \u2018Let It Bee\u2019 campaign, a much larger area of the Abbey Meadows in Abingdon has been allowed to grow, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012","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=31012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}