{"id":57103,"date":"2014-07-09T19:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=57103"},"modified":"2014-07-09T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T23:12:40","slug":"how-alison-got-her-stripes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=57103","title":{"rendered":"how Alison got her stripes back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>So very glad to find a moderate-sized phormium, a true 4-footer, I was willing to overlook the fact that many of this New Zealand Flax&#8217;s leaves age into a dull olive green, losing the pale bands that are the inspiration for the alternate name &#8216;Golden Alison.&#8217;  Locally, this phormium goes by &#8216;Alison Blackman.&#8217;<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/botanizeme020\/june2014\/july2014\/P1017597.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1017597.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Blue Glow&#8217; agaves, small Australian shrub Brachysema praemorsum, Furcraea macdougalii in the center, phormium off to the right, all tolerating the parched conditions in the front gravel garden.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/botanizeme020\/june2014\/july2014\/P1017646.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1017646.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unseasonal heat wave in May blistered some leaves, so a thorough cleaning was undertaken shortly afterward.  And that&#8217;s how Alison got her stripes back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/botanizeme020\/june2014\/july2014\/P1017608.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1017608.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This phormium, bred by Barry Blackman, a nurseryman in New Zealand, was named in memory of his late daughter.<br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So very glad to find a moderate-sized phormium, a true 4-footer, I was willing to overlook the fact that many of this New Zealand Flax&#8217;s leaves age into a dull olive green, losing the pale bands that are the inspiration &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=57103\">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":[28,36],"tags":[130,595,2352,3788,2904,3478],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-eR1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57103"}],"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=57103"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57220,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57103\/revisions\/57220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}