{"id":2814,"date":"2012-09-01T18:51:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2012-09-01T18:51:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:51:56","slug":"fairy-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2814","title":{"rendered":"Fairy rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full of folklore, the reality is that fairy rings are where a circle of fungi enriches the soil causing a marked ring of stronger growth:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2815\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/fairy-rings\/e12_3457p1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2815\" title=\"E12_3457p1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E12_3457p1-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"Fairy ring\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E12_3457p1-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E12_3457p1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E12_3457p1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>This photo, taken on a sunny day, shows an almost complete circle of lusher growth with the fruiting body of the fungi (toadstools) also showing.\u00a0 This particular fairy ring is in one of our chicken runs. There were also a few other, smaller, rings but these were too indistinct to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>This next photo is of the same ring but was taken early in the morning on a duller day:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2816\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/fairy-rings\/e12_3433p1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2816\" title=\"E12_3433p1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E12_3433p1-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"Fairy ring\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E12_3433p1-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E12_3433p1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E12_3433p1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Here, I have got lower down to show better the fungi growing in the ring. You can also just make out that the grass is longer and thicker in that area.<\/p>\n<p>The full set can be seen in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/garden\/other\/fairy-rings\/index.php\">Garden Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full of folklore, the reality is that fairy rings are where a circle of fungi enriches the soil causing a marked ring of stronger growth: This photo, taken on a sunny day, shows an almost complete circle of lusher growth with the fruiting body of the fungi (toadstools) also showing.\u00a0 This particular fairy ring is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fairy rings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fungi","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}