{"id":35814,"date":"2026-08-26T23:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35814"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:54:47","slug":"still-putting-on-a-good-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35814","title":{"rendered":"Still Putting on a Good Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026082608.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the almshouse residents said the flowers along St Helen Wharf have been a good show this summer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026082607.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe flowers still need watering, and the town council&#8217;s waterer was out keeping them going. So, with summer beginning to wind down, the flowers are still doing well with a little help. They haven&#8217;t grown leggy like they do later in the season.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026082601.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere has been a little rain over recent days, although not enough to do much of the job after such a dry summer. There is no green in the lawns apart from some non grassy plants with deeper roots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the almshouse residents said the flowers along St Helen Wharf have been a good show this summer. The flowers still need watering, and the town council&#8217;s waterer was out keeping them going. So, with summer beginning to wind down, the flowers are still doing well with a little help. They haven&#8217;t grown leggy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35814","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=35814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}