{"id":48649,"date":"2025-05-24T19:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=48649"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:19:29","slug":"spring-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/24\/spring-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fivespot<\/a>\"Aristea<\/a>\"California<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s not just orchids in our garden. While I recently boasted about the orchids in bloom,<\/a> the rest of the plants are springing up, too. They include succulents, Mediterranean-climate plants, and California natives. Some really stand out, like the adorable Fivespots<\/a> in the first photo above, and the stunning blue Aristea<\/a> in the second photo.<\/p>\n

\"Pink<\/a>\"Nasturtium<\/a>\"Veltheimia<\/a><\/p>\n

Other plants are unsung heroes. Pink Clover<\/a> first arrived as a weed, but it was cute, so it stayed. Now it reappears annually as a ground cover, with a perpetual supply of cheery, pink pom-pom flowers. The bees love it, and it delightfully fills up the cracks in the concrete patio.<\/p>\n

\"Aeonium<\/a>\"California<\/a>\"Alstroemeria,<\/a><\/p>\n

There are more plants which thrive on their own, and need very little care. Nasturtiums<\/a> reseed each year. They wind across the patio and around flowerpots, with a kaleidoscope of orange, yellow, and red blossoms. Brilliant orange California Poppies<\/a> proudly demonstrate why they’re the official state flower. Close to the coast, many have bright yellow on the ends of their petals. That variety doesn’t seem to occur inland. It’s a joy to have it among our spring blooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not just orchids in our garden. While I recently boasted about the orchids in bloom, the rest of the plants are springing up, too. They include succulents, Mediterranean-climate plants, and California natives. Some really stand out, like the adorable Fivespots in the first photo above, and the stunning blue Aristea in the second photo. […]<\/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-48649","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\/48649","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=48649"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48719,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48649\/revisions\/48719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}