{"id":162644,"date":"2022-03-18T16:57:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=162644"},"modified":"2022-03-28T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:10:39","slug":"x-marks-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/x-marks-the-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"X marks the spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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California poppies have distinctive forked cotyledons, and seedlings look like little green X’s on the ground.<\/p>\n

Winter is leaving at last \u2014 I hope \u2014 and I can finally start rehabilitating the badly neglected quarter-acre on which I now live. Posting will continue to be light as I prune, rake, dig, cuss, plant and dig some more.<\/p>\n

There are two garden centers in town. Both are inconveniently distant, and neither has much of what I need. Fortunately, there are a Walmart and a Home Depot within easy reach. I’ve had better luck with them, but it’s still often frustrating. Walmart, for instance, has a surprising good selection of neatly packaged perennials for seemingly excellent prices. I found Eryngium<\/em> and two kinds of Tricyrtis<\/em>, neither of which I’ve ever seen in any Wichita store. However, they’re Walmart quality. If the package says it contains three roots, expect two. If it says two, one will be small and the other just a fragment or missing entirely. It’s not entirely a bad deal; these plants typically cost three times as much from online sources, and if they survive, they’ll put on a good show \u2014 eventually. But unless you have more patience than money, look elsewhere for your plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California poppies have distinctive forked cotyledons, and seedlings look like little green X’s on the ground. Winter is leaving at last \u2014 I hope \u2014 and I can finally start rehabilitating the badly neglected quarter-acre on which I now live. Posting will continue to be light as I prune, rake, dig, cuss, plant and dig … Continue reading “X marks the spot”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-real-life-adventures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Gji","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162919,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162644\/revisions\/162919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}