{"id":164088,"date":"2022-05-14T07:40:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=164088"},"modified":"2022-05-14T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:13:47","slug":"and-yet-another-gardening-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/and-yet-another-gardening-post\/","title":{"rendered":"And yet another gardening post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is no botanical garden where I now live. If I want to photograph interesting and unusual plants, I’ll have to grow them myself \u2014 which I am doing. It takes time to get them established, though. Until them, I must content myself with pictures of more familiar plants, such as these.<\/p>\n

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This year’s California poppies are the “Mission Bells” strain, which according to the seed packet is a mix of “double and semi-double” poppies in “pink, scarlet, gold and cherry.” So far nearly all the flowers have had just four petals in colors ranging from yellow-orange to orange-yellow. The above is one of the few exceptions.<\/p>\n

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The peonies are huge plants at least ten years old, if not twenty or more. They looked splendid last year until a thunderstorm flattened them. While peony supports are available, they are overpriced, so I am trying this system<\/a> to keep the plants upright in wind and rain.<\/p>\n

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My recent predecessors here apparently completely ignored yard maintenance, and much of my work outside has been a salvage operation. While pruning a hackberry in the back yard, I discovered a couple of branches had grafted themselves together, below.<\/p>\n

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Update: a few more pictures, taken this morning.<\/p>\n

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There is no botanical garden where I now live. If I want to photograph interesting and unusual plants, I’ll have to grow them myself \u2014 which I am doing. It takes time to get them established, though. Until them, I must content myself with pictures of more familiar plants, such as these.<\/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":[692,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-GGA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164088","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=164088"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164113,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164088\/revisions\/164113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}