{"id":52498,"date":"2014-02-26T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=52498"},"modified":"2018-02-07T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:17:38","slug":"agaves-love-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=52498","title":{"rendered":"agaves love company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/feb2014\/P1013123.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2014\/P1013123.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1013123.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least I think they do, because I&#8217;m forcing them to get along.  It might be closer to the truth to admit that it&#8217;s me that loves the company of agaves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2014\/P1013125.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1013125.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because if that&#8217;s love Mr. Ripple is showing the little powdery blue A. potatorum, it&#8217;s his own unique brand of tough love.  I had to trim a bit of Mr. Ripple recently to allow the others some breathing room.  In the background, that&#8217;s Agave schidigera giving Mr. Ripple a wide berth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2014\/P1013115.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1013115.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newly planted Agave parrasana &#8216;Fireball&#8217; in the land of rosettes that is the front garden, surrounded by Echeveria agavoides.<br \/>\nI wish I noticed that pup peeking out before I planted it.  Supposedly, this agave remains solitary, without offsetting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb2014\/P1013129.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1013129.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t planted any new agaves in the front garden for some time.  Honestly, I suspected I was overdoing it a bit.  Thank goodness I&#8217;ve come to my senses.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least I think they do, because I&#8217;m forcing them to get along. It might be closer to the truth to admit that it&#8217;s me that loves the company of agaves. Because if that&#8217;s love Mr. Ripple is showing the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=52498\">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":[28,27],"tags":[693,1160,1434,1330,1008],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-dEK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52498"}],"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=52498"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83257,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52498\/revisions\/83257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}