{"id":74070,"date":"2016-08-01T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=74070"},"modified":"2016-08-01T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:20:51","slug":"in-a-vase-on-monday-courtesy-of-the-og","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=74070","title":{"rendered":"In a Vase on Monday, (courtesy of the OG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/august2016\/1-P1012782.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1012782.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/outlawgarden.blogspot.com\/\">Peter\/Outlaw Gardener<\/a>, that indefatigable daily blogger and all-around nice guy, raffled off some vases recently.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/august2016\/1-P1012776.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1012776.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(And look who&#8217;s a winner!)  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/august2016\/1-P1012801.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1012801.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this fat little echeveria in the front garden and unceremoniously pulled him up by the roots to welcome Peter&#8217;s vase.<br \/>\n(Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/01\/in-a-vase-on-monday-pinky-perky-and-perkiest\/\">Cathy at Rambling in the Garden<\/a> for hosting In a Vase on Monday.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/august2016\/1-P1012812.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1012812.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A vase that mimics a Notocactus magnificus doesn&#8217;t need much accompaniment, but I dragged some stuff off the mantle for the occasion.<br \/>\nThis dried bloom of an Allium schubertii has lasted eons.  The little green pedestal vase came home with me a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/august2016\/1-P1012813.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1012813.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bulb in the garden disappeared long ago.  There&#8217;s not enough winter chill in zone 10 for this allium to thrive here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/august2016\/1-P1012807.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 1-P1012807.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much, Peter!  And one raffle deserves another, though I doubt I can find something as worthy as your vase.  I&#8217;ll have to give it some thought.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter\/Outlaw Gardener, that indefatigable daily blogger and all-around nice guy, raffled off some vases recently. (And look who&#8217;s a winner!) I found this fat little echeveria in the front garden and unceremoniously pulled him up by the roots to welcome &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=74070\">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":[25,2478,898,27],"tags":[1839],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-jgG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74070"}],"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=74070"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74172,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74070\/revisions\/74172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}