{"id":180,"date":"2011-08-08T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=180"},"modified":"2020-04-02T20:50:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:50:37","slug":"highfield-moss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Highfield Moss"},"content":{"rendered":"

A real hidden gem on the outskirts of Lowton, near Wigan and for at least the past 160 years the home to a colony of Marsh Gentians. See page 36 of Buxton’s Botanical Guide<\/a>: Original text<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately Baguley Moor the only other colony Buxton referred to within Greater Manchester became part of the largest council estate in western Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Marsh<\/p>\n

Marsh<\/em> Gentian<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Marsh<\/p>\n

Marsh<\/em> Gentian and Hoverfly<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Marsh<\/p>\n

Marsh<\/em> Gentians<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Western<\/p>\n

Western<\/em> Gorse<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Sundew\"<\/p>\n

Round<\/em> leaved Sundew<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Sundew<\/em><\/p>\n

Sundew in flower<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\"Common<\/p>\n

Common<\/em> Fumitory in wheat<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In addition to the Gentians there was also Round leaved Sundews, Western Gorse, Heath Groundsel, and Common Fumitory. Birdlife included Yellowhammers, Linnets, Corn Buntings, House Martins and Swallows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A real hidden gem on the outskirts of Lowton, near Wigan and for at least the past 160 years the home to a colony of Marsh Gentians. See page 36 of Buxton’s Botanical Guide: Original text Unfortunately Baguley Moor the only other colony Buxton referred Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,4],"tags":[56,57,21],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flora","category-insects","tag-highfield-moss","tag-marsh-gentians","tag-round-leaved-sundew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","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=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/6329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}