{"id":1267,"date":"2026-04-12T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:08:07","slug":"spring-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasque-flower-Hartslock-20260321-IMG_8440-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasque-flower-Hartslock-20260321-IMG_8440-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasque-flower-Hartslock-20260321-IMG_8440-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasque-flower-Hartslock-20260321-IMG_8440-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasque-flower-Hartslock-20260321-IMG_8440-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasque-flower-Hartslock-20260321-IMG_8440-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasque-flower-Hartslock-20260321-IMG_8440-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pasque-flower-Hartslock-20260321-IMG_8440-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Popped up there at the end of March and it was very nice but a bit dry already &#8211; even after steady Winter rains the slope still dries up very quickly after a few days of sunshine. The Pasque Flowers were just starting and I saw only one flowering Cowslip btu there were a lot of Hairy Violets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gymnocheta viridis<\/em> and <em>Gonia picea<\/em> were 2 early Spring tachinids on the wing already, and there were a few male Orange Tips. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popped up there at the end of March and it was very nice but a bit dry already &#8211; even after steady Winter rains the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}