{"id":31363,"date":"2012-07-03T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T22:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=31363"},"modified":"2012-07-03T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T22:54:43","slug":"crocosmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=31363","title":{"rendered":"crocosmia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Thin stands of crocosmia are what&#8217;s left of the formerly generous clumps of fast-thickening cultivars with names like &#8216;Star of the East,&#8217; &#8216;Solfatarre,&#8217; &#8216;George Davidson.&#8217;  They pop up now as anonymous singletons in surprising locations every year, always some shade of orange, always signalling that things are really going to start heating up temperature-wise, color-wise, every-wise imaginable.  There was a time long ago when the appearance of crocosmia and the lighting of summer&#8217;s orange torch in the garden caused some mild unease about its color-wheel effects on, for example, crimson Persicaria amplexicaulis.  Now I just call such effects&#8230;summertime.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/june2012\/P1017481.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/july2012\/P1017776.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thin stands of crocosmia are what&#8217;s left of the formerly generous clumps of fast-thickening cultivars with names like &#8216;Star of the East,&#8217; &#8216;Solfatarre,&#8217; &#8216;George Davidson.&#8217; They pop up now as anonymous singletons in surprising locations every year, always some shade &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=31363\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,551,36],"tags":[725,285],"class_list":["post-31363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulbs","category-design","category-plant-portraits","tag-crocosmia","tag-persicaria-amplexicaulis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-89R","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=31363"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31374,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31363\/revisions\/31374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}