{"id":33437,"date":"2025-02-28T23:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33437"},"modified":"2025-02-28T23:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:02:34","slug":"albert-park-through-the-year-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33437","title":{"rendered":"Albert Park Through the Year: February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBefore we get any further through our year in the Albert Park, can I remind you of the Park Rules:
\n* No Golf Practice
\n* Dogs to be kept under full control \u2013 Kindly place foul\u00a0 \u00a0matter in bins provided.
\n* No fires, fireworks, or BBQs.
\n* No cars, motorcycles, or cycling.
\n
\nToday, the last day of February, began foggy. A man on a mini tractor did the rounds, replacing litter bags in Albert Park, and helping keep order.
\n
\nThe Prince Albert memorial can be seen among the trees in this picture.
\n
\nChrists Hospital of Abingdon, the charity that run the park, have a tree map and a list of trees at http:\/\/www.ch-of-abingdon.org\/albert-park\/natural-history\/<\/a>. From the map I can see this tree, much admired for its early blossom, is called Pissards Plum<\/em> or Prunus cerasifera ‘Pissardii’<\/em> in Latin.<\/p>\n


\nLots of people walk in the park. St Michael and All Saints Church can be seen behind in this picture.
\n
\nRobins are to be heard around the park, with their clear rapid song. Here is one near a less vocal but more aerobatic Blue Tit.
\n
\nThere are also magpies in the park. One for sorrow, two for \u2026<\/em>
\n
\nAfter the fog, there were blue skies and sunshine. Crocuses opened.
\n
\nDaffodils stood tall.
\n
\nConduit House (once used for conduiting spring water) and Trinity Church in Conduit Road can be seen in this picture near the park entrance. In older postcards there was a longer view, along the east path of the park, of Trinity but that sightline is now hidden by evergreens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before we get any further through our year in the Albert Park, can I remind you of the Park Rules: * No Golf Practice * Dogs to be kept under full control \u2013 Kindly place foul\u00a0 \u00a0matter in bins provided. * No fires, fireworks, or BBQs. * No cars, motorcycles, or cycling. Today, the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albert-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33437","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=33437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}