{"id":336,"date":"2010-04-04T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2010-04-12T10:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:27:45","slug":"spring-sun-winter-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Spring sun &#8230; Winter wind!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday today and it&#8217;s Easter Sunday so I was determined to get out of the house and enjoy the Spring weather.<\/p>\n<p>The sun is just starting to get warm but today the clouds kept scudding across and the wind was a bit &#8216;more January than April&#8217;! That said, when I got out of the wind it was pretty warm and there were even a few bumblebees and a lone Peacock butterfly fluttering around. Hairy Violets seem to be starting and the orchids are getting easier to spot in the flattened grass.<\/p>\n<p>I was determined not to map orchids but I couldn&#8217;t help just having a quick look as I came back. I found a few and took some photos of a few typical plants.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-336 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-002.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-337\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-337'>\n\t\t\t\tThis is one of the areas we have been opening up this winter &#8211; reducing scrub height and letting the light in\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-004.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-004-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-005.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-005-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-339\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-339'>\n\t\t\t\thybrid Lady x Monkey rosettes\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-006.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-006-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-340\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-340'>\n\t\t\t\ta Lady orchid rosette\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-007.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hl-007-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-341\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-341'>\n\t\t\t\ta Monkey orchid rosette\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday today and it&#8217;s Easter Sunday so I was determined to get out of the house and enjoy the Spring weather. The sun is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}