{"id":32083,"date":"2024-03-31T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T08:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32083"},"modified":"2024-03-31T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T08:06:41","slug":"st-ethelwolds-garden-march-2024-happy-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32083","title":{"rendered":"St Ethelwold&#8217;s Garden &#8211; March 2024 &#8211; Happy Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024032612.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe wildflower garden at the bottom of St Ethelwold&#8217;s Garden is starting to bloom. The purple pyramids of flowers are Honesty.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024032601.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere are honey bees and bumble bees in the garden and a good variety of flowers &#8211; far more than in February. This bumble bee is on a willow catkin taking pollen. It is not just the flowers that have pollen.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024032604.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere are lots of grape hyacinths.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024032603.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFruit blossoms grow against a wall on an espalier.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024032609.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere are hundreds of tulips coming up, and April will look magnificent with even more flowers. The volunteer gardeners have been busy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024032602.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt the bottom of the garden is Clematis &#8216;snowdrift&#8217; with its drift of flowers. Its long narrow leaves are evergreen and leathery.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024032608a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn one hedge, I saw a sparrow-like bird. The picture has a blurred 3-D quality. It may be a Dunnock, also known as a &#8216;hedge sparrow&#8217; which is not really a sparrow.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wildflower garden at the bottom of St Ethelwold&#8217;s Garden is starting to bloom. The purple pyramids of flowers are Honesty. There are honey bees and bumble bees in the garden and a good variety of flowers &#8211; far more than in February. This bumble bee is on a willow catkin taking pollen. It is [&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-32083","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\/32083","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=32083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}