{"id":53414,"date":"2014-03-24T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=53414"},"modified":"2014-03-25T00:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T04:18:51","slug":"alstroemeria-rock-n-roll-consider-yourself-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=53414","title":{"rendered":"Alstroemeria &#8216;Rock &#038; Roll&#8217; (consider yourself warned)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>A mind-numbing, eye-hemorrhaging, variegated alstroemeria has been unleashed at Southern California nurseries this spring.<br \/>\nI reached for the camera phone when I saw big displays at two nurseries over the weekend.<br \/>\nAlstroemeria &#8216;Rock &#038; Roll.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe tag predicts that it will be &#8220;<em>Sure to attract attention<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\nYa think?<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/march2014\/IMG_0699.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo IMG_0699.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I suppose if we can&#8217;t grow those crazy, high-contrast hostas, why not a variegated alstroemeria?   This one needs a frost-free winter to be happy; otherwise, container culture only.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/march2014\/IMG_0701.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo IMG_0701.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m immune to the charms of the variegated.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smgrowers.com\/products\/plants\/plantdisplay.asp?cat_id=8&#038;plant_id=1929\">Alstroemeria psittacina<\/a> spent some time in my garden in years past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/march2014\/IMG_0703.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/march2014\/IMG_0703.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo IMG_0703.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Introduced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesselaar.com\/plants\/rock-and-roll-alstroemeria\/\">Tesselaar International<\/a> of Victoria, Australia, in 2011, for sale at local nurseries under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monrovia.com\/plant-catalog\/plants\/3699\/rock-roll-peruvian-lily\/\">Monrovia&#8217;s<\/a> label.<\/p>\n<p>If you dare&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/big><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mind-numbing, eye-hemorrhaging, variegated alstroemeria has been unleashed at Southern California nurseries this spring. I reached for the camera phone when I saw big displays at two nurseries over the weekend. Alstroemeria &#8216;Rock &#038; Roll.&#8217; The tag predicts that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=53414\">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":[842,36],"tags":[3477,3479,405,246,3480,3478],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-dTw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53414"}],"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=53414"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53488,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53414\/revisions\/53488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}