{"id":1312,"date":"2010-02-15T17:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2014-09-08T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T19:16:45","slug":"centerfold-for-foliage-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"Brachysema praemorsum &#8216;Bronze Butterfly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>All I could remember about this beauty was the name &#8216;Bronze Butterfly&#8217; and that he was a California native, but I was<br \/>\nonly half right.  <\/p>\n<p>Brachysema praemorsum &#8216;Bronze Butterfly&#8217; is from Australia.  Takes the harsh conditions of the front gravel garden in stride,<br \/>\nwhich include minimal irrigation in summer but also low light levels in winter.  The odd-shaped red flowers are superfluous,<br \/>\nto me anyway.  Hummingbirds say otherwise.  Low growing to 2 feet, lightly clipped to keep it about 2-3 feet wide.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve only once seen it in commerce here in Southern California &#8212; the day I bought it, now some years ago.<br \/>\nSpring growth brings that tart chartreuse edge to the dark leaf.  Beautiful shrubby texture for the agaves,  phormiums<br \/>\nand sedums surrounding it.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb15008-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I could remember about this beauty was the name &#8216;Bronze Butterfly&#8217; and that he was a California native, but I was only half right. Brachysema praemorsum &#8216;Bronze Butterfly&#8217; is from Australia. Takes the harsh conditions of the front gravel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=1312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[36],"tags":[3896,3897],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-la","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}