{"id":33682,"date":"2025-05-04T21:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33682"},"modified":"2025-05-04T21:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:08:55","slug":"tree-henge-in-abbey-meadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33682","title":{"rendered":"Tree Henge in Abbey Meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025050403.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRecent tree planting at Abbey Meadow in Abingdon has introduced a mix of native and non-native species aimed at enhancing biodiversity to provide habitat and food sources for wildlife.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025050404.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMost notably, around 32 new Sequoia (Redwood) trees \u2014 possibly Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwoods) \u2014 were planted. These have been arranged in a large circle, with each tree spaced about twelve yards apart, forming what some local residents have begun calling &#8216;Tree Henge.&#8217; I received an email from Nick about its sudden appearance; he noted that it seemed to have arrived without much public explanation.<\/p>\n<p>There was, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/uncategorised\/signs-point-to-more-nature-recovery-in-vale\/\">a press release<\/a> from Vale of White Horse District Council (VWHDC), but it covered a broad range of biodiversity projects. With so much going on, it was easy to miss the specific mention of Tree Henge &#8211; a case of not seeing the Henge for the wood.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025050405.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA wooden sign featuring a bird has also been put in nearby to explain why the area is being allowed to go wild. Similar signs have appeared in other rewilded spaces maintained by VWHDC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent tree planting at Abbey Meadow in Abingdon has introduced a mix of native and non-native species aimed at enhancing biodiversity to provide habitat and food sources for wildlife. Most notably, around 32 new Sequoia (Redwood) trees \u2014 possibly Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwoods) \u2014 were planted. These have been arranged in a large circle, with [&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-33682","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\/33682","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=33682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}