{"id":4289,"date":"2010-06-07T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T15:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2010-06-07T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T15:37:59","slug":"summer-and-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=4289","title":{"rendered":"Summer and Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Starring Cotinus &#8216;Grace.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=66smoke013.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/66smoke013.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here glimpsed through a frame of chains (<a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=2763\">This Year&#8217;s Folly<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=6510new014.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/6510new014.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A confusion of smoke trees.  The tropical Euphorbia cotinifolia is in the foreground, just now leafing out in June, a self-sown seedling from previous E. cotinifolias.  Multi-stems give this very brittle, fast-growing tree strength to withstand strong winds, not a concern in colder zones, where it&#8217;s grown seasonally for summer containers.  Grace, no slouch herself in the fast-growing department, smokes in the background, oblivious to the vicissitudes of trees from the tropics.<\/big> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=66smoke005.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/66smoke005.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\nAll photos except the chains by MB Maher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starring Cotinus &#8216;Grace.&#8217; Here glimpsed through a frame of chains (This Year&#8217;s Folly). A confusion of smoke trees. The tropical Euphorbia cotinifolia is in the foreground, just now leafing out in June, a self-sown seedling from previous E. cotinifolias. Multi-stems &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=4289\">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":[35,30],"tags":[89,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-17b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289"}],"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=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4404,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}