{"id":844,"date":"2014-06-06T10:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2014-06-08T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T17:19:03","slug":"2014-06-05-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"2014-06-08 rare orchids have gone to seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just got back from a lovely\u00a0morning up on Hartslock\u00a0where I can confirm that the orchid flowering season is definitely over.\u00a0All of the Lady, hybrids &amp; Monkey orchids have set seed or are very close to going to seed so if you haven&#8217;t come already then book\u00a0a date in your calendar for the\u00a0second\/third week of May 2015. There are plenty of Common-spotted Orchids and around 100 Bee Orchids looking really exotic and the Pyramidal Orchids are just starting.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the site was looking really lovely with a profusion of flowers and butterflies. The first Large Skippers and Marbled Whites were out and a lone Clouded Yellow zoomed across slope 3, pausing to drink nectar from Dogwood flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Dodder (<em>Cuscuta epithymum<\/em>) is starting to appear across the reserve but isn&#8217;t in flower so can be tricky to spot, while another rare and elusive plant, the Bastard Toadflax (<em>Thesium humifusum<\/em>), is flowering well across in slope 4 &#8211; accompanied by the Bastard Toadflax Bug (<em>Canthophorus impressus<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just got back from a lovely\u00a0morning up on Hartslock\u00a0where I can confirm that the orchid flowering season is definitely over.\u00a0All of the Lady,&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-844","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\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}