{"id":3491,"date":"2010-05-10T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2011-03-16T18:54:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T22:54:15","slug":"the-many-faces-of-cobaea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=3491","title":{"rendered":"The Many Faces of Cobaea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Annual vine <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=1190\">Cobaea scandens<\/a>.  Seems I still feel up to the challenge of including strong personalities in the garden.  For two successive years in a row, I&#8217;ve had to launch emergency eradication efforts in early spring of overly boisterous and exuberant personalities from the <em>same<\/em> 4X6 patch of earth;  this year the alstroemeria and last year the golden hops vine.  What&#8217;s with this attraction to garden thugs?  Amazing good looks, for one.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been cutting it back to minimize the &#8220;death by tendril&#8221; and throttling of nearby plants.   At least cobaea doesn&#8217;t run at the root.   Fairly drought resistant too.  These were seeded in spring 2009 and didn&#8217;t bloom at all last summer.<\/p>\n<p>This is the poor man&#8217;s version of time-lapse photography, so several blooms were involved, but all these dramatic stages of bloom present at one time make this vine very photogenic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=may10cob016.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/may10cob016.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=may10cob019.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/may10cob019.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=may10cob005.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/may10cob005.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual vine Cobaea scandens. Seems I still feel up to the challenge of including strong personalities in the garden. For two successive years in a row, I&#8217;ve had to launch emergency eradication efforts in early spring of overly boisterous and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=3491\">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":[73],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-Uj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491"}],"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=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14691,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions\/14691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}