{"id":33802,"date":"2025-05-30T23:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33802"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:37:47","slug":"valerian-grows-at-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33802","title":{"rendered":"Where Valerian Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025053003.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAt Spring Road Cemetery, the grass has been left to grow, along with wildflowers such as this valerian near the edge. Valerian is thriving this year \u2014 growing on walls, beside walls, and wherever it can find a gap at an edge. Its pink or red or white flower clusters attract bees.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025053004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nIt was growing by a cross that is at the edge of the cemetery &#8211; so near to the edge that a hedge is swallowing it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Spring Road Cemetery, the grass has been left to grow, along with wildflowers such as this valerian near the edge. Valerian is thriving this year \u2014 growing on walls, beside walls, and wherever it can find a gap at an edge. Its pink or red or white flower clusters attract bees. It was growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemetery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802","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=33802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}