{"id":14424,"date":"2011-03-11T13:13:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T17:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14424"},"modified":"2011-03-15T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T22:33:20","slug":"tulip-reportqueen-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14424","title":{"rendered":"Tulip Report\/Queen of the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Sounds less zombie-ish in French:  <em>Reine de la Nuit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/311morn010.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazingly long stems, over 2 feet, planted in a shallow bowl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/311tul004.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With &#8216;Double Beauty of Apeldoorn&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/311tul009.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will most likely be my final tulip report.  A couple pots of bulbs had deformed flowers, short stems.<br \/>\nSo the winners this year for tulips amenable to forcing, undergoing 6 weeks of prechilling for this zone 10 February\/March display are:<br \/>\nQueen of the Night, Brown Sugar, and Double Beauty of Apeldoorn.<br \/>\nMail-ordered from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestoneperennials.com\/b\/bp\/index.html\">Bluestone Perennials<\/a> in summer of 2010 for delivery in fall.  Good price, excellent quality.  Order in summer, July\/August, for the best selection.<br \/>\nUpon arrival, stash bulbs in an empty vegetable crisper in the fridge.  I always plant the bulbs the day after Thanksgiving, an easy date to remember.<br \/>\nThe stunted losers were a grab bag of mixed bulbs bought at a local nursery, an impulse buy.  An impulse to be resisted next year.<\/p>\n<p>Cheap, easy fun, like doodling with crayons.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n<p>(Edited to add:  &#8216;Apricot Beauty&#8217; forces well, too, just wasn&#8217;t a personal favorite.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds less zombie-ish in French: Reine de la Nuit Amazingly long stems, over 2 feet, planted in a shallow bowl. With &#8216;Double Beauty of Apeldoorn&#8217; This will most likely be my final tulip report. A couple pots of bulbs had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=14424\">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],"tags":[701,696,702,615,665,695],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-3KE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14424"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14668,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions\/14668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}