{"id":167877,"date":"2022-10-21T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T22:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=167877"},"modified":"2022-10-21T17:13:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T22:13:41","slug":"dead-catt-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/dead-catt-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Catt blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Catt-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Catt-3-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-167876\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Catt-3-640x362.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Catt-3-1024x579.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Catt-3-768x434.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Catt-3-1536x869.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Catt-3-2048x1158.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Catt-3-1200x679.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each of the very red <em>Cattleya<\/em> flowers lasted a full four weeks. Even after they finally fell off the plant, they retained their form and pigments. They look particularly colorful when illuminated from the back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ipomoea-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ipomoea-2-640x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"567\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-167875\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ipomoea-2-640x567.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ipomoea-2-1024x908.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ipomoea-2-768x681.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ipomoea-2-1536x1361.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ipomoea-2-2048x1815.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ipomoea-2-1200x1064.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The freakish freezes earlier this week wiped out most of the morning glories before they bloomed. Not all, though: those growing on the fence under a mulberry tree survived. Apparently the canopy of leaves conserved enough heat that the vines were able to weather the 24\u00b0F temperature. Those particular plants were lagging behind the others, though, and they still might not bloom before the next hard freeze.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon before the first freeze I cut the flowering stem that was furthest along and put it in water inside the house. Today the first and probably last flower opened; my efforts were not <em>completely<\/em> in vain. Much as I like the color blue, though, I probably will grow something else next year.<\/p>\n<p>(The Burpee seed packet states &#8220;75 days to bloom.&#8221; Nope.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of the very red Cattleya flowers lasted a full four weeks. Even after they finally fell off the plant, they retained their form and pigments. They look particularly colorful when illuminated from the back. The freakish freezes earlier this week wiped out most of the morning glories before they bloomed. Not all, though: those &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/dead-catt-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dead Catt blues&#8221;<\/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":[692,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-HFH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167877","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=167877"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167888,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167877\/revisions\/167888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}