{"id":2732,"date":"2010-04-12T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2011-03-10T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T20:37:15","slug":"fringe-tree-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=2732","title":{"rendered":"Fringe Tree in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Not a title to elicit amazement, you&#8217;re thinking.  But I&#8217;ve never seen the fringe tree, Chionanthus retusus, in full bloom, branches and flowers weighted down by rain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=april1210001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april1210001.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It can be tricky to get good views of this tree in bloom, planted as it is in the narrow east sideyard. <\/p>\n<p>This morning the tree brought its blooms to me.  Ducking under its drooping, rain-soaked canopy, stepping gingerly around snails.<br \/>\nPeering through to a garden framed with curtains and swags of snowy fringe.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=april1210024-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april1210024-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this winter rain\/summer drought Mediterranean zone 10, this is very late in the season to get a half inch of rain.   By now, it&#8217;s pretty much hose-dragging season.  <\/p>\n<p>I never sleep so sound as when rain has been forecast for overnight &#8212; and never hop out of bed so fast the next morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=april1210003.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april1210003.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a title to elicit amazement, you&#8217;re thinking. But I&#8217;ve never seen the fringe tree, Chionanthus retusus, in full bloom, branches and flowers weighted down by rain. It can be tricky to get good views of this tree in bloom, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=2732\">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":[18],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-I4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732"}],"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=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14405,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/14405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}