{"id":2598,"date":"2015-01-01T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2015-01-01T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:23:03","slug":"sparkling-fresh-in-the-winter-sun-at-kew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/01\/sparkling-fresh-in-the-winter-sun-at-kew\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkling fresh in the winter sun at Kew"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2599\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN2824-Witch-Hazel-Hamamelis-x-intermedia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN2824-Witch-Hazel-Hamamelis-x-intermedia-150x150.jpg\" alt=\" Witch Hazel Hamamelis x intermedia\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Witch Hazel <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hamamelis x intermedia<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The period between Christmas and New Year can easily feel flat, but a walk in brilliant winter sunshine, with the low slanting light making everything glisten or glow in beauty, is exactly the opposite. Kew Gardens is famous for its marvellous Witch Hazels. Today, Hamamelis x intermedia was in full &#8216;bloom&#8217;, its extraordinary flower structures in deep yellows and oranges contrasting crisply with the cloudless sky. The photo is unretouched.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2602\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Backlit-twigs-glistening-in-winter-sun-a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2602\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Backlit-twigs-glistening-in-winter-sun-a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Backlit twigs glistening in winter sun\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backlit twigs glistening in winter sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Corsican Pine near the Queen Elizabeth gate is always beautiful. Today in the slanting light the soft colours and subtle shapes of its jigsaw-flaked bark were shown off to perfection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2604\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN2837-Corsican-Pine-bark-Pinus-nigra.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN2837-Corsican-Pine-bark-Pinus-nigra-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Corsican Pine bark\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corsican Pine bark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2605\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN2838-Corsican-Pine-Pinus-nigra.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN2838-Corsican-Pine-Pinus-nigra-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Corsican Pine, Pinus nigra\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corsican Pine, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pinus nigra<\/span>: a lovely tree<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The period between Christmas and New Year can easily feel flat, but a walk in brilliant winter sunshine, with the low slanting light making everything glisten or glow in beauty, is exactly the opposite. Kew Gardens is famous for its marvellous Witch Hazels. Today, Hamamelis x intermedia was in full &#8216;bloom&#8217;, its extraordinary flower structures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/01\/sparkling-fresh-in-the-winter-sun-at-kew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sparkling fresh in the winter sun at Kew<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[239,388],"tags":[654,652,653],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-of-nature","category-natural-patterns","tag-corsican-pine","tag-hamamelis","tag-winter-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}