{"id":161,"date":"2008-08-08T08:27:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/summer-garden-blooms\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T22:22:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T06:22:06","slug":"summer-garden-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/summer-garden-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Garden Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re preempting your regular orchid programming to bring you some non-orchid photos to enjoy. After a few notable heat waves in the spring, it&#8217;s been a cool and foggy summer here on the California coast. It&#8217;s perfect weather for this unusual Fuchsia procumbens, native to New Zealand. The small, colorful flowers trail down a raised flowerpot. Even the pollen is a colorful bluish purple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fuchsia_procumbens_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Fuchsia procumbens flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fuchsia_procumbens_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Fuchsia procumbens flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fuchsia_procumbens_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Fuchsia procumbens pollin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/fuchsia_procumbens_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Fuchsia procumbens pollin\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you think these pink flowers are cute, imagine thousands of little pink puffs in bloom all year long. Pink clover (scientific name Persicaria capitata) arrived as weeds a few years ago in our back garden. They spread to make a great ground cover, growing out of every nook and cranny. The leaves are colorful too, with reddish variegation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pink_clover_640px.jpg\" title=\"Pink clover flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pink_clover_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Pink clover flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Passionflowers are vigorous growers, and this red Passionflower vine would take over the back yard without regular pruning. Each flower only lasts a few days, but with vines that stretch 4o feet (12 m) and more, there&#8217;s a regular supply of flowers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/red_passionflower_640px.jpg\" title=\"Red Passionflower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/red_passionflower_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Red Passionflower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re preempting your regular orchid programming to bring you some non-orchid photos to enjoy. After a few notable heat waves in the spring, it&#8217;s been a cool and foggy summer here on the California coast. It&#8217;s perfect weather for this unusual Fuchsia procumbens, native to New Zealand. The small, colorful flowers trail down a raised [&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-161","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\/161","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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}