{"id":27087,"date":"2012-03-09T13:08:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27087"},"modified":"2012-03-09T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:08:03","slug":"scilla-peruviana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27087","title":{"rendered":"Scilla peruviana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>In late 2010 Scilla peruviana won me a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=10938\">wellies (garden boots)<\/a> when I described to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valeaston.com\/\">Val Easton of Plant Talk<\/a> the upcoming spectacle of their galactic indigo blooms coinciding with the chartreuse flowers trusses of the Corsican hellebore.  How was I to know the scilla would be slackers for 2011? <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/february2012\/39scilla004-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year the scilla roused themselves enough to show a few blooms, but the hellebores had flopped to the ground by then, and I&#8217;ve let far too many lunaria seedlings into the mix shading the base of the scilla.  Between the scilla&#8217;s stubbornness and my spinelessness when it comes to thinning things out, a photo of a bloom in a vase is the only option left for 2012.  By next year we should have this all worked out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2010 Scilla peruviana won me a pair of wellies (garden boots) when I described to Val Easton of Plant Talk the upcoming spectacle of their galactic indigo blooms coinciding with the chartreuse flowers trusses of the Corsican hellebore. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=27087\">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":[25,36],"tags":[436,6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-72T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27087"}],"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=27087"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27119,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27087\/revisions\/27119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}