{"id":23324,"date":"2011-10-12T22:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=23324"},"modified":"2015-08-15T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T00:31:32","slug":"sedum-the-summer-of-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=23324","title":{"rendered":"Sedum &#038; the Summer of Neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><center>A tale of invincibility.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2011\/1011morn003-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2011\/1011morn001-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sedum, with the survivability of a cockroach, has been performing every trick I&#8217;ve asked it to.<br \/>\nWay back in January I planted up these hollow flues pried out of our chimney when some repairs were made.<br \/>\nReusable shopping bags were stuffed into the hollow core as an insert to hold the soil.  A very shallow insert not holding much soil mass at all.<br \/>\nChecking on the sedum and keeping it watered and happy was not a priority this summer.  Let&#8217;s be honest; they were pretty much ignored.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2011\/1011morn014-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2011\/1011morn002-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A shrubby little pea family\/Fabaceae member, Dorycnium hirsutum hoisted its leaves up against the concrete.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s this tracery and pattern against the concrete that finally drew my interest back to this sedum experiment.<br \/>\n(What a great family of nitrogen-fixing plants is the Fabaceae, including baptisia, lespedeza, Hedysarum coronarium, Trifolium rubens, and on and on.)<br \/>\nThe bright green leaves are Orbexilum pedunculatum, aka, \u02dcSampson&#8217;s Snakeroot,&#8217; another member of the pea family native to Texas.<br \/>\nPurplish flowers, from what I remember, since it hasn&#8217;t bloomed this summer.  <\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tale of invincibility. The sedum, with the survivability of a cockroach, has been performing every trick I&#8217;ve asked it to. Way back in January I planted up these hollow flues pried out of our chimney when some repairs were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=23324\">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":[36,898,27],"tags":[1388,1515,1514,483],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-64c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324"}],"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=23324"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68084,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23324\/revisions\/68084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}