{"id":31931,"date":"2024-02-25T23:06:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31931"},"modified":"2024-02-25T23:06:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T22:06:55","slug":"st-ethelwolds-garden-february-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31931","title":{"rendered":"St Ethelwolds Garden &#8211; February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024022102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSince January, the tortoise has moved from the birdbath to a large jug with yellow flowers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024022110.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nVolunteer gardeners have strung new ropes across the trellis area. Most plants are still quite low and the view is uninterrupted.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024022103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe row of compost bins near the bottom of the garden are at different stages. Just the nearby bin is taking fresh organic materials. The others hold heating up compost or final compost.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024022107b.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA blackbird pecks for worms among the Hellebores. Hellebores flower during January and February and establish themselves before other plants compete for resources in the spring and summer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024022111.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDaffodils are now on the lawn under the tree where the aconites flowered in January.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024022106.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPink Primroses brighten up some areas of the rockery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since January, the tortoise has moved from the birdbath to a large jug with yellow flowers. Volunteer gardeners have strung new ropes across the trellis area. Most plants are still quite low and the view is uninterrupted. The row of compost bins near the bottom of the garden are at different stages. Just the nearby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31931","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=31931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}