{"id":14974,"date":"2011-03-26T19:22:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T23:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14974"},"modified":"2011-03-26T19:22:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T23:22:33","slug":"plant-show-weekendweakened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14974","title":{"rendered":"Plant Show Weekend\/Weakened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>I vaguely remember promising not to post any more photos of tulips, so in my weakened state I&#8217;m violating that oath with one more photo of tulips &#8216;Queen of the Night,&#8217; taken just before heading north for the San Francisco Flower &#038; Garden Show.  The tulips have no doubt been flattened by the serial storms which have been queuing up offshore like circus elephants all week.  Good thing I brought wellies on this trip, because it&#8217;s been nothing but squelchy ground underfoot. Could it be this inveterate traveler is slightly homesick?  Sitting in a little kitchenette motel in San Francisco nursing an Anchor Steam, grey and drizzly outside, a car brimming with plants, including the legendary Mathiasella bupleuroides, (what fabulous good luck to stumble into this one, a propagator&#8217;s nightmare, found at The Dry Garden in North Oakland),  and some rusted bits salvaged from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingresources.org\/index.html\">Building REsources<\/a>, I&#8217;m ready to swing homeward and plant, shuffle pots, shuffle photos, and write a bit about what I&#8217;ve seen.  What a homebody I&#8217;ve turned into.  Funny how that happens every spring.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/319eve028.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I vaguely remember promising not to post any more photos of tulips, so in my weakened state I&#8217;m violating that oath with one more photo of tulips &#8216;Queen of the Night,&#8217; taken just before heading north for the San Francisco &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14974\">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":[25,850],"tags":[677,849,10,676,848,695],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-3Tw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974"}],"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=14974"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14994,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions\/14994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}