{"id":1797,"date":"2014-07-24T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2014-07-24T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:16:07","slug":"wrenthorpe-park-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Wrenthorpe Park wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tuesday was a very hot morning for a walk around the balancing ponds in Wrenthorpe Park. Wildflowers sown in an empty flower bed gave us a fine display of poppies, cornflowers, bistort, yarrow and red leg.\u00a0 Purple loosestrife, goat\u2019s rue, greater willowherb and meadowsweet grew prolifically in the damp ground around the pond.\u00a0 Water plantain grew delicately amongst the burr-reed and reed mace at the edge of the pond.\u00a0 Small skipper butterflies, small tortoiseshells and meadow browns were busy as we moved along the edge of the meadow and across the stream to see both hedge and marsh woundwort, common valerian, common hemp nettle and gelder rose.\u00a0 Workmen were cutting the grass in the meadow areas so we were fortunate to see what we did. <em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1798\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1798\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1798\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1798\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1798\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/valerian.jpg\" alt=\"common valerian\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/valerian.jpg 660w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/valerian-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/valerian-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">common valerian<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was a very hot morning for a walk around the balancing ponds in Wrenthorpe Park. Wildflowers sown in an empty flower bed gave us a fine display of poppies, cornflowers, bistort, yarrow and red leg.\u00a0 Purple loosestrife, goat\u2019s rue, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1797\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}