{"id":37385,"date":"2013-02-02T20:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=37385"},"modified":"2013-02-02T20:23:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:23:28","slug":"admiring-the-lines-euphorbia-lambii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=37385","title":{"rendered":"admiring the lines (Euphorbia lambii)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>First it was the lush, wavy growth and strong limber lines Euphorbia lambii acquired this winter that I stopped to admire just as the sun was coming up.  Euphorbia lambii is another one from the land of all things tender and exquisite, the Canary Islands, zoned for 9-11.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1016677.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The so-called tree euphorbia, I used to dislike it for the very reason I now love it, the trunks and tree-like shape.  Tastes change [shrugs].<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1016681.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the eye starts tracing lines, it quickly becomes a game of visual pickup sticks.  Following the trunk of the euphorbia led to the pattern of lines in a nearby chair, the original Homecrest and the reason for recently acquiring another pair.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1016712.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then I noticed the beehive pot was getting in on the action too.  Plant, chair, pottery &#8212; the important things in life.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2013\/P1016717.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acanthus, thistle, iris, papyrus &#8212; plants are the graphic bible of pattern, the visual codex we&#8217;ve all been studying for millenia &#8212;<br \/>\nokay, admittedly some people more than others.<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it was the lush, wavy growth and strong limber lines Euphorbia lambii acquired this winter that I stopped to admire just as the sun was coming up. Euphorbia lambii is another one from the land of all things tender &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=37385\">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":[551,2137,27],"tags":[202],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-9IZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37385"}],"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=37385"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37446,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37385\/revisions\/37446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}