{"id":1271,"date":"2026-05-01T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:14:18","slug":"hybrids-in-flower-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/hybrids-in-flower-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrids in flower &#8211; May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1283-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1283-edited-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1283-edited-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1283-edited-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1283-edited-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1283-edited-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1283-edited-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1283-edited-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1283-edited-800x600.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Chalk Milkwork looking superb all over the site &#8211; watch for Common Milkwork (more mauve or pink) mixed in with them <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went up to the site on Monday and the hybrids were in good flower but no signs of Lady Orchid this year and the Monkey Orchids seemed quite stunted and slowed down by the dry weather over the last month. One of the worst weather effects fo the orchids is to have a Spring drought and that&#8217;s what 2026 is looking like at the moment. I&#8217;m hoping the weekend actually brings some rain because it&#8217;s parched up there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1277-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1274\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1277-729x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1277-729x1024.jpeg 729w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1277-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1277-768x1078.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1277-1094x1536.jpeg 1094w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1277-1459x2048.jpeg 1459w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1277-scaled.jpeg 1823w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lady x Monkey Orchid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1278-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"1276\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1278-edited-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1278-edited-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1278-edited-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1278-edited-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1278-edited-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1278-edited-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1278-edited-600x800.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over on slope 4 the Pasque Flowers were looking a bit dry but there were about 20 in flower, which is a good number for this time of year &#8211; possibly held over by the recent cold weather. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1280-copy-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1280-copy-1024x780.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1280-copy-1024x780.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1280-copy-300x228.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1280-copy-768x585.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1280-copy-1536x1170.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1280-copy-2048x1560.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pasque Flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went up to the site on Monday and the hybrids were in good flower but no signs of Lady Orchid this year and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}