{"id":14288,"date":"2011-03-08T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T22:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2011-03-08T18:25:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T22:25:41","slug":"tulip-double-beauty-of-apeldoorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14288","title":{"rendered":"Tulip &#8216;Double Beauty of Apeldoorn&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>This is some of what I&#8217;ll be spending my tulip money on next year.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/37tul014.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/\n\nThe 'Double Beauty of Apeldoorn.'  No more 'Apricot Beauty,' demure bordering on insipid.  (For pots at least, maybe not massed in the landscape.)\nBy March I'm ready for flowers to squawk like parrots.\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/37tul004.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the second year in a row I&#8217;ve purchased and prechilled this flamboyant double tulip.   What a fine Easter present (to me).<br \/>\nMaybe fewer bulbs to a pot for next year.  These flowers are huge. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/37tul009.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/37tul005.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably not necessary to write that there are no big spring bulb displays in Los Angeles.<br \/>\nIn fact, many Southern Californians only know spring as the time of year to retrieve their flip-flops from under the bed.<br \/>\nI like the way these tulips announce spring, loud and gaudy.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is some of what I&#8217;ll be spending my tulip money on next year.<\/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":[25],"tags":[666,665],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-3Is","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288"}],"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=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14327,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions\/14327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}