{"id":34492,"date":"2025-10-30T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34492"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:52:34","slug":"albert-park-through-the-year-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34492","title":{"rendered":"Albert Park Through the Year: October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103029.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThroughout October, Albert Park has been bright with autumn colour, to the delight of walkers, dog owners, and photographers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103004.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Albert Monument stands amid the seasonal transformation, framed by trees turning yellow and gold.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103028c.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA motorised leaf collector has been busy keeping the ground clear of leaves. The leaves are taken back to the compound and composted.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103030.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMany trees reached their most vivid colours in mid-October. The tulip tree (above) and the pocket handkerchief tree were among the first to turn and shed their leaves,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103027.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nfollowed closely by the golden rain tree.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the month, the limes were yellow, and the beeches were turning gold and bronze.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leaves Falling from Beech tree in Albert Park\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/usP4sUSfWUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video above shows the steady fall of leaves from the large fenced-in beech tree.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103002b.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMushrooms and toadstools have been springing up across the park \u2014 some fairly solitary,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103007b.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nothers gathered in wide spreads or tight clusters.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103020.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLate blooms still hold on: cyclamen in one place, a second flowering on some Mexican orange blossoms, and daisies at various edges.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025103001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI didn\u2019t get many animal pictures this month, apart from squirrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout October, Albert Park has been bright with autumn colour, to the delight of walkers, dog owners, and photographers. The Albert Monument stands amid the seasonal transformation, framed by trees turning yellow and gold. A motorised leaf collector has been busy keeping the ground clear of leaves. The leaves are taken back to the compound [&hellip;]<\/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-34492","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\/34492","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=34492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}