{"id":1082,"date":"2013-05-27T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2014-06-30T20:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:28:57","slug":"return-to-ebbor-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Return to Ebbor Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An almost magical area of ancient woodland. Perhaps also unsurprisingly its also a National Nature Reserve. The walk and scramble up through the gorge is superb with the high limestone rock faces and caves giving the woodland an ethereal quality. Unfortunately the rain cut short our visit but its definitely well worth another visit next time we\u2019re in Somerset. <\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Harts Tongue Fern\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Harts Tongue Fern\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1000731_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"899\" \/>          <br \/>Harts Tongue Fern.           <\/p>\n<p>Probably the most plentiful fern in the damp woodland. Also the closest I\u2019m ever likely to get to the tongue of a fully mature Red Deer Stag or Hart. Ebbor Gorge could however easily rival Mirkwood Forest that other well home to Harts and the occasional Hobbit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bluebells\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bluebells\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1000714_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>          <br \/>Bluebells growing amongst the upper woodland slopes.           <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Maiden Hair Fern \" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Maiden Hair Fern \" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1000740_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>          <br \/>Maiden Hair Fern or more correctly Maiden Hair Spleenwort close to the car park.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Yellow Archangel\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Yellow Archangel\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1000728_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"899\" \/>          <br \/>Yellow Archangel           <\/p>\n<p>One of the characteristic plants of ancient woodland. The variegated form is a popular garden plant tolerant of dry, shady conditions. Although tough as old boots it doesn\u2019t really compare to the spectacular carpet created by the Yellow Archangel.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An almost magical area of ancient woodland. Perhaps also unsurprisingly its also a National Nature Reserve. The walk and scramble up through the gorge is superb with the high limestone rock faces and caves giving the woodland an ethereal quality. Unfortunately the rain cut short <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link btn btn-transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1082\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[142,329,327,328,416,189],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","tag-bluebells","tag-ebbor-gorge","tag-harts-tongue-fern","tag-maiden-hair-fern","tag-may","tag-yellow-archangel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}