{"id":262,"date":"2016-12-12T04:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=262"},"modified":"2016-12-12T04:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:29:44","slug":"a-tale-of-two-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2016\/12\/12\/a-tale-of-two-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Gardens."},"content":{"rendered":"

A visit to a friend’s garden was productive, butterflies were nectaring on some tall everlastings, making for some nice pictures.<\/p>\n

Painted Lady, Vanessa kershawi, a pristine specimen.<\/p>\n

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And on the fishpond, floating Nardoo foliage.<\/p>\n

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It is always good to find a St. Andrews Cross spider, Argiope keyserlingi, in the garden, and this one came with a bonus, the male in position on the decorative silk cross behind the female.<\/p>\n

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This is the time of year for the Australian Jewel Spider, aka Spiny Spider, Austracantha minax, and there is what can only be described as a colony in the Burrendong Beauty hakea. Strangely, the twenty or so spiders are all facing into the shrub, south, away from the sun, meaning only their interesting under-sides could be photographed.<\/p>\n

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Out in the paddock there is plenty of seed available for cockies and friends,<\/p>\n

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however, on a showery morning the Little Corellas found the seed on the Snowy River Wattle to be more inviting.<\/p>\n

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And with plenty of grevillea flowers on tap the young Red Wattlebirds have been growing quickly and becoming independent,<\/p>\n

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and learning to be wary.<\/p>\n

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Click pictures to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A visit to a friend’s garden was productive, butterflies were nectaring on some tall everlastings, making for some nice pictures. Painted Lady, Vanessa kershawi, a pristine specimen. And on the fishpond, floating Nardoo foliage. It is always good to find a St. Andrews Cross spider, Argiope keyserlingi, in the garden, and this one came with … Continue reading A Tale of Two Gardens.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}