{"id":138343,"date":"2023-07-16T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-danish-meadow-bursts-into-colour\/"},"modified":"2023-07-16T12:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T05:09:37","slug":"the-danish-meadow-bursts-into-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-danish-meadow-bursts-into-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Danish meadow bursts into colour"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith the sun high in the sky and the night\u2019s bright with reds and yellows and blues to enjoyMidsummer at the. summerhouse: 29C and a hosepipe ban. Small planes scan the plots for too-green grass. Water use is monitored. Drooping trees perk up with occasional light rain. The two-month no-mow meadow is alive with daisies, poppies, cornflowers, every kind of grasshead. I walk around with the Pl@ntNet app. I am near-addicted to the bird-identifier Merlin, turned to Sound ID, making sense of the chorus.I cycle past the looping peewits, scan for the flickering skylarks, watch, entranced by the skimming martins living in the sand cliffs along the beach. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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