{"id":1462,"date":"2021-06-29T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=1462"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:30:52","slug":"the-trap-grounds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2021\/the-trap-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trap Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Allport<\/strong><\/p>\n

During lockdown, in the \u2018Trap Grounds\u2019 ten-acre nature reserve visitor footfall has doubled and doubled again. In contrast, all through cool overcast rainy May, our wildlife did a go-slow. Butterflies and most other insects went back to sleep, while the May blossom, Guelder Rose, Cowslips and Red Campion, the Marsh Marigolds and Yellow Iris hung on all month in flower, unvisited by their usual pollinators.<\/p>\n

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Alan\u2019s plantings in Snowdrop Glade. Photo by Virginia Allport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, as early June arrived and the temperatures abruptly soared, the next wave of wildflowers, the Birds-foot Trefoil and Yellow Rattle, the Poppies and Ox-eye Daisies \u2013 grown thigh-high after all that rain \u2013 burst into exuberant bloom weeks behind their usual schedule. The second half of June has again brought battering rain, and those lanky wildflowers have flopped and sprawled. But life, miraculous nurturing life, continues on its wild and beautiful way. Praise be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 507 \u2022 July 2021
\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting
\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n

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Alan Allport During lockdown, in the \u2018Trap Grounds\u2019 ten-acre nature reserve visitor footfall has doubled and doubled again. In contrast, all through cool overcast rainy May, our wildlife did a go-slow. Butterflies and most other insects went back to sleep, while the May blossom, Guelder Rose, Cowslips and Red Campion, the Marsh Marigolds and Yellow … Continue reading The Trap Grounds<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":1404,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1462\/revisions\/1541"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}