{"id":49871,"date":"2013-12-13T20:28:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T00:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=49871"},"modified":"2013-12-13T20:28:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T00:28:21","slug":"so-cold-that-plants-are-turning-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=49871","title":{"rendered":"so cold that plants are turning purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>The cold weather is coaxing some fine seasonal coloration out of plants, especially those whose names hint to a destiny with the color purple anyway.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/botanizeme004\/P1011215.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011215.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acacia baileyana &#8216;Purpurea&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/dec2013\/P1011178.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011178.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/botanizeme004\/P1011219.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011219.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>deeply plummy mid ribs on the leaves of Melianthus &#8216;Purple Haze&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/dec2013\/P1011189.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011189.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yucca aloifolia &#8216;Purpurea&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I hope your gardens are faring as well as possible in this seriously cold December, and that you&#8217;ve protected and saved from the freeze that&#8217;s blasted North America&#8217;s west coast what you could and\/or become resigned to bouts of intense plant shopping in spring.  In the meantime, there will always be catalogues to browse in winter, like England&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crug-farm.co.uk\/exciting_plants-4.aspx\">Crug Farm Plants<\/a>.  Though they&#8217;re mostly untried (and unavailable) in Southern California, I&#8217;m thinking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/gardening-blog\/2013\/dec\/12\/schefflera-hardy-umbrella-plants\">hardy scheffleras<\/a> like S. alpina and macrophylla might be just the thing for containers kept on the moist side next summer.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cold weather is coaxing some fine seasonal coloration out of plants, especially those whose names hint to a destiny with the color purple anyway. Acacia baileyana &#8216;Purpurea&#8217; deeply plummy mid ribs on the leaves of Melianthus &#8216;Purple Haze&#8217; Yucca &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=49871\">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":[1082,842,36,27],"tags":[3237,1509,3235,3236,556,1429],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-cYn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49871"}],"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=49871"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49941,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49871\/revisions\/49941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}