{"id":59967,"date":"2014-09-16T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=59967"},"modified":"2020-02-19T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T23:46:06","slug":"extraordinary-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=59967","title":{"rendered":"extraordinary leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All leaves are extraordinary in a basic, photosynthetic sense, and then there are those that push the point even further.  Leaves perform infinite adaptive riffs and improvisations on variegation or curve, curl, and flounce.  A couple examples in my garden today.  Pam at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penick.net\/digging\/?p=28904\">Digging<\/a> collects tributes to leaves the 16th of every month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2014\/P1011025.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011025.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Cut-lace leaves of Glaucium flavum look amazingly pristine for mid-September, especially when compared to the battered leaves of a sweet potato in the upper left.  I recently cut the bloomed-out flower trusses off this one, which carried tissue-thin poppies in a delicious shade of peach all summer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2014\/P1011045.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011045.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Another glaucium in the front garden, possibly G. grandiflorum.  No bloom as of yet, and there&#8217;s no hurry with leaves like that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/september2014\/P1011026.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011026.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Echium simplex is probably the one plant in the garden whose looks <em>improve<\/em> with the heat.  This is a biennial, blooming in its second year, with rumored triennial tendencies.  In any case, when it feels the urge, tall white spikes will appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All leaves are extraordinary in a basic, photosynthetic sense, and then there are those that push the point even further. Leaves perform infinite adaptive riffs and improvisations on variegation or curve, curl, and flounce. A couple examples in my garden &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=59967\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[3908,3907,3518],"class_list":["post-59967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plant-portraits","tag-echium-simplex","tag-glaucium-flavum","tag-glaucium-grandiflorum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-fBd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=59967"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94165,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59967\/revisions\/94165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}