{"id":34894,"date":"2012-11-05T18:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T22:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=34894"},"modified":"2012-11-05T20:14:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T00:14:52","slug":"gomphrena-decumbens-airy-bachelor-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=34894","title":{"rendered":"Gomphrena decumbens &#8216;Airy Bachelor Buttons&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>A space oddity of a gomphrena, is the Airy Bachelor Buttons.  When it grew in my garden, I didn&#8217;t know its full name, only that it was a perennial gomphrena in zone 10 with a very lanky habit, that grew vine-like to the top of my pergola, over 8 feet high, and eventually required the support of a trellis.  I&#8217;ve been a little afraid of growing it again ever since.  Haven&#8217;t seen it offered in nurseries lately, but spied it on a recent bike ride growing relatively demure and compact among shrubs, spilling onto the sidewalk.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/november2012\/P1013784.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than meekly watching it grow to the top of a pergola again, I can imagine lightly clipping it to spill out of a large, tall container, whose sides it would ring like a ruby-clouded nebula.  Something spiky &#8212; a phormium, agave, yucca, etc. &#8212; would be ideal holding the center.  The gomphrena would require similar amounts of sun and water, as in plenty of the first, very little of the second.  I may have to go back and beg for some cuttings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/november2012\/P1013790.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anniesannuals.com\/plt_lst\/lists\/general\/lst.gen.asp?prodid=2426\">Annie&#8217;s Annuals &#038; Perennials<\/a> sometimes carries this gomphrena, which gives masses of material for cut flowers, both fresh and dried.  <\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A space oddity of a gomphrena, is the Airy Bachelor Buttons. When it grew in my garden, I didn&#8217;t know its full name, only that it was a perennial gomphrena in zone 10 with a very lanky habit, that grew &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=34894\">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":[2423,36,898],"tags":[2446,1485,2445],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-94O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34894"}],"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=34894"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34929,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34894\/revisions\/34929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}