{"id":105145,"date":"2019-03-19T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-iridescent-beauties-pavilioned-in-splendour\/"},"modified":"2019-03-19T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T06:03:18","slug":"country-diary-iridescent-beauties-pavilioned-in-splendour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-iridescent-beauties-pavilioned-in-splendour\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: iridescent beauties, pavilioned in splendour"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBuxton, Derbyshire: The drake mandarin duck ranks among the Earth\u2019s most beautiful birdsThe Pavilion Gardens in my home town are a wonderful civic amenity. They\u2019re threaded by the young River Wye and feature several lakes where wildfowl have gathered for as long as I can remember. They were part of my daily walk to school and I recall vividly one morning how the duck there managed to subvert my sense of natural order as much as if I had suddenly seen a sheep catch and kill a rabbit. Related: Club gatherings of the male mallard: Country diary 100 years ago Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Buxton, Derbyshire: The drake mandarin duck ranks among the Earth\u2019s most beautiful birdsThe Pavilion Gardens...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-rlT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108168,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/beginning-again-with-begonias-james-wong\/","url_meta":{"origin":105145,"position":0},"title":"Beginning again with begonias | James Wong","date":"June 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Begonias used to be for hot climates only, but here are some tough enough to survive and thrive in BritainI am a reformed begoniaphobe. 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