{"id":73155,"date":"2016-06-07T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=73155"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:41:48","slug":"dont-forget-the-lilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=73155","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t forget the lilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><big><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/june2016\/P1012114-001.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1012114-001.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lilium &#8216;Black Charm,&#8217; whose first bloom opened June 1st.  <\/p>\n<p>Against the backdrop of my increasingly scrubby, grassy, agave-filled garden, lilies look like something that glided in on a red carpet.<br \/>\nWhen they&#8217;re in bloom, I always crave more.  Beautifully easy in containers.  This one overwintered in a very dryish container in the pot ghetto but did get the occasional sprinkle.<br \/>\nUnlike lots of other bulbs, lilies never go completely dormant so will need some moisture year-round.  Abandon them to a no-rain winter at your peril.<br \/>\nPlan ahead and order via catalogues in the fall for the best selection.  Or, like me, leave it to chance to find bulbs in bins at the nurseries in spring, if you can find them then at all.<br \/>\nI like them in containers for 1) the best drainage and 2) as a means to keep track of them.<br \/>\nAs often as I change things up, I&#8217;ve been known to unintentionally slice through bulbs with a shovel, a feat always accompanied by a stabbing pain to the heart as well.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilium &#8216;Black Charm,&#8217; whose first bloom opened June 1st. Against the backdrop of my increasingly scrubby, grassy, agave-filled garden, lilies look like something that glided in on a red carpet. When they&#8217;re in bloom, I always crave more. Beautifully easy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=73155\">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":[36],"tags":[4525],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-j1V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73155"}],"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=73155"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73181,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73155\/revisions\/73181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}