{"id":119,"date":"2008-06-11T11:21:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T19:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/even-more-garden-blooms\/"},"modified":"2009-09-04T10:33:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T18:33:46","slug":"even-more-garden-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/11\/even-more-garden-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Garden Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I know I did a non-orchid garden post just a few weeks ago, but the backyard garden has really burst into bloom this month. Dave took some more great pictures, so I couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<p>On the left is a Gazania flower after a morning watering. On the right is the extraordinary flower from a St John&#8217;s Wort plant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/gazania_flower_640px.jpg\" title=\"Gazania flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/gazania_flower_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Gazania flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/st_johns_wort_flower_640px3.jpg\" title=\"St Johns Wort flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/st_johns_wort_flower_640px3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"St Johns Wort flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, strawberry plants sprouted in a few flower pots after I had used some compost that still had seeds. They&#8217;ve been vigorous growers, and overwintered well enough to start giving us berries in early May. These strawberries should be fully ripe in a couple days. On the right, bright pink trumpet flowers are hummingbird favorites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/strawberries_640px.jpg\" title=\"Ripening strawberries\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/strawberries_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Ripening strawberries\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/trumpet_flowers_640px.jpg\" title=\"Pink trumpet flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/trumpet_flowers_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Pink trumpet flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I know I did a non-orchid garden post just a few weeks ago, but the backyard garden has really burst into bloom this month. Dave took some more great pictures, so I couldn&#8217;t resist. On the left is a Gazania flower after a morning watering. On the right is the extraordinary flower from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-gardening","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}