{"id":30563,"date":"2012-06-05T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=30563"},"modified":"2012-06-05T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:52:18","slug":"occasional-daily-photo-6512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=30563","title":{"rendered":"Occasional Daily Photo 6\/5\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>The spent, dried, bleached-out bloom of Allium schubertii embellishing a mossed basket of succulents and bromeliads.*<br \/>\nMight be a ho-hum occurrence for many gardeners, but I never thought I&#8217;d see the day I&#8217;d get this allium to bloom, much less be able to play around with the dried remains, which resemble fossilized fireworks.  <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/june2012\/6512morn009.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<\/big><br \/>\n*The basket is hung on a tall tripod, which gives it the general outline of H.G. Wells&#8217; Martian Walker.  Height is key for lots of reasons; to thwart snails, for close-up, eye-level viewing, and to grow vines up the tripod legs, like the Thunbergia alata.  Compulsive multi-tasking was bound to spill over into the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spent, dried, bleached-out bloom of Allium schubertii embellishing a mossed basket of succulents and bromeliads.* Might be a ho-hum occurrence for many gardeners, but I never thought I&#8217;d see the day I&#8217;d get this allium to bloom, much less &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=30563\">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":[25,624,898,27],"tags":[1839,264],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-7WX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30563"}],"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=30563"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30581,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30563\/revisions\/30581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}