{"id":25794,"date":"2020-06-25T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=25794"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T10:00:46","slug":"the-spinney-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/the-spinney-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Spinney Orchid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year (May 2019) I discovered a tiny flower head of an orchid that had naturally established itself in my front lawn. It didn&#8217;t take me long to identify it as a Common Spotted Orchid. By mid June it was in flower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I put up a small group of sticks and string around the plant to give it at least some protection and too my surprise it flowered successfully and seemed quite at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amazingly, the plant has grown again this year and it is even better, so I&#8217;ve been keeping it well watered and even breaking up eggshell and placing it round the base and general area where it is growing. I&#8217;m hoping this year I might get some seeds from it and a few more plants may appear next year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-6O3A2299-438x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-6O3A2299-438x700.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-6O3A2299-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-6O3A2299-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-6O3A2299-768x1229.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-6O3A2299-960x1536.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-6O3A2299.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><figcaption>Common Spotted Orchid &#8211; June 24th 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-my-garden_M2A9257-468x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-my-garden_M2A9257-468x700.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-my-garden_M2A9257-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-my-garden_M2A9257-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-my-garden_M2A9257-768x1148.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-my-garden_M2A9257-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Common-Spotted-Orchid-my-garden_M2A9257.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption>The same plant in its first year June 16th 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year (May 2019) I discovered a tiny flower head of an orchid that had naturally established itself in my front lawn. It didn&#8217;t take me long to identify it as a Common Spotted Orchid. By mid June it was in flower. I put up a small group of sticks and string around the plant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[658,670,172],"tags":[669,671],"class_list":["post-25794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-658","category-orchids","category-year","tag-orchids","tag-spotted-orchid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}