{"id":1410,"date":"2014-03-26T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2014-06-30T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:15:08","slug":"national-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"National Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020088.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Scots Pine in limestone pavement at Gait Barrows\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Scots Pine in limestone pavement at Gait Barrows\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020088_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>             <br \/>Scots<\/a> Pine growing in the limestone pavement at Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve.&#160; <br \/>The dry conditions result in Pines and Ash trees that typically grow extremely slowly. Naturally stunted many of these trees are several hundred years old.           <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"It wouldn&#39;t be Spring without a Primrose\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"It wouldn&#39;t be Spring without a Primrose\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020116_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>             <br \/>Primrose<\/a> \u2013 the foodplant for the caterpillars of the Duke of Burgundy.           <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Interesting hole from a nearby woodland\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Interesting hole from a nearby woodland\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020066_thumb.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"194\" \/>             <br \/>An<\/a> interesting looking hole in a nearby woodland.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"More holes\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"More holes\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020119_thumb.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"194\" \/>             <br \/>Yet<\/a> another hole on the edge of a local woodland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Reindeer Moss\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Reindeer Moss\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020103_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>             <br \/>Reindeer<\/a> Moss           <br \/>An important source of food for Reindeer\/Caribou. Typically found in the pine forests and tundra of the far north. Incredible that a small amount of it has survived at Gait Barrows since the retreat of the glaciers 15,000 years ago. In common with many other lichens it rarely grows more than 5mm per year. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Scarlet Elf Cups\" 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=\"Scarlet Elf Cups\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1020015_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/>            <br \/>A<\/a> couple of Scarlet Elf Cups growing on the floor of a nearby woodland.           <br \/>It appears to have been a reasonably good year for Elf Cups. Unfortunately the majority of the ones closer to home were either picked or trampled by the scourge of the local woodland &#8211; the Fungi Forager. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scots Pine growing in the limestone pavement at Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve.&#160; The dry conditions result in Pines and Ash trees that typically grow extremely slowly. Naturally stunted many of these trees are several hundred years old. 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