{"id":51310,"date":"2014-01-25T02:35:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T06:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=51310"},"modified":"2014-01-25T02:35:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T06:35:19","slug":"cowboy-corgi-and-the-giant-hesperaloe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=51310","title":{"rendered":"cowboy corgi and the giant hesperaloe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The corgi got a bath, the hesperaloe got away<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><big>Bathed and brushed and made to wear a silly bandana, which he bears with his usual dog grace.  Just like cowboys, everybody gets a bath here for the weekend.  <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/jan2014\/P1012043.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1012043.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/jan2014\/P1011824.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011824.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent temptation, spotted earlier in the week, the giant Hesperaloe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mswn.com\/media\/info_sheets\/hesperaloe_funifera.pdf\">H. funifera<\/a>, to 6 feet high and wide.<br \/>\nThose dramatic curlicue fibers on the leaves had me crunching the numbers, garden square footage-wise.   It&#8217;d be a crime to shoehorn this beauty into a tight spot, so I passed.<br \/>\nSpires of white flowers to 12 feet, and hardy to zone 6. <\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ll be spending the weekend prowling the garden for an available 6X6 feet of space I&#8217;ve somehow overlooked.  May yours be just as productive!<br \/>\n<\/center>  <\/p>\n<p> <\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corgi got a bath, the hesperaloe got away. Bathed and brushed and made to wear a silly bandana, which he bears with his usual dog grace. Just like cowboys, everybody gets a bath here for the weekend. A recent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=51310\">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":[28,34],"tags":[3305,3303],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-dlA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51310"}],"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=51310"}],"version-history":[{"count":76,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51391,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51310\/revisions\/51391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}