{"id":538,"date":"2010-01-15T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T20:16:14","slug":"the-best-zwartzkop-in-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"The Best Zwartzkop in the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>lives at David and Crissy&#8217;s house a few doors down the street and is obligingly in bloom this 15th of January in honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maydreamsgardens.com\/\"> Bloom Day <\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=swartzkop11510008.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/swartzkop11510008.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nomenclature issues for Aeonium &#8216;Zwartkop&#8217; are discussed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smgrowers.com\/products\/plants\/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=2885\">San Marcos Growers <\/a>.  The dirty leaves in the San Marcos photo are usually how my dark aeoniums look, and I have to restrain myself from polishing the leaves (whereas I never have to restrain myself from wild impulses to dust things <i>indoors<\/i>).  I doubt David and Crissy are surreptitiously polishing their Zwartkop, but that its high gleam is a consequence of the light, cleansing rain two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Abutilons and pelargoniums revel in the cool mid-winter temps.  The pelargoniums flower better in heat, of course, but I always prefer the dramatic color brought out by colder temperatures in the leaves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=jan9second019.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/jan9second019.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the rosettes of succulents do not technically belong in a  Bloom Day post<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=satjan9030.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/satjan9030.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A green aeonium, elongating into bloom, potentially a future Bloom Day post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=mitchagav422.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/mitchagav422.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lives at David and Crissy&#8217;s house a few doors down the street and is obligingly in bloom this 15th of January in honor of Bloom Day : Nomenclature issues for Aeonium &#8216;Zwartkop&#8217; are discussed by San Marcos Growers . The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=538\">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":[27],"tags":[41,837,246],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-8G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14901,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/14901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}