{"id":71915,"date":"2016-04-13T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=71915"},"modified":"2016-04-13T20:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:04:05","slug":"fatsia-japonica-spiders-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=71915","title":{"rendered":"Fatsia japonica &#8216;Spider&#8217;s Web&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/portlandfling2014\/P1018513.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1018513.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love it or hate it, Fatsia &#8216;Spider&#8217;s Web&#8217; can now be found locally in Southern California.  <a href=\"http:\/\/rogersgardens.com\/\">Roger&#8217;s Gardens<\/a> in Corona del Mar is carrying it in affordable one-gallons.  Fatsias grow like weeds here in dry shade, so when Southern California bloggers first saw this fatsia in Portland, Oregon gardens at the <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenbloggersfling.blogspot.com\/p\/2014-portland.html\">2014 blogger meetup<\/a>, we were, well, a bit indignant.  By all rights, fancy cultivars of Fatsia japonica should be readily available at our local nurseries too.  Pathetically, it&#8217;s taken two years.  Let&#8217;s step it up, local nurseries!  I&#8217;ve been told that the succulent craze is hitting nurseries in their pocketbooks, because succulents aren&#8217;t killed off as easily as spring\/summer bedding, failures which usually bring lots of repeat customers.  Succulents endure and don&#8217;t require seasonal replanting either, hence less nursery visits.  One way for nurseries to stand out is by offering slightly off-the-beaten track plants.  Nurseries that source specialty plants like this fatsia will always get my loyalty.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/april2016\/P1011701.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1011701.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About that variegation.  We once hired a painter (hi David!) who used to clean his brushes by whipping them around centrifugally, covering pots and plants in nearest proximity with a stippled whitewash.  This plant reminds me of that painter David, and how quickly he was hustled off the job after that whirling dervish brush-cleaning trick.  Or maybe the variegation reminds you of a bad case of spider mites.  I like how it brightens shady corners and reminds me of heated discussions over controversial variegation with plant friends.<\/p>\n<p>(The <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenbloggersfling.blogspot.com\/p\/2016.html\">Garden Bloggers Fling for 2016<\/a> is meeting in Minneapolis July 14-17, 2016.)<br \/>\n<\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love it or hate it, Fatsia &#8216;Spider&#8217;s Web&#8217; can now be found locally in Southern California. Roger&#8217;s Gardens in Corona del Mar is carrying it in affordable one-gallons. Fatsias grow like weeds here in dry shade, so when Southern California &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=71915\">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],"tags":[3793,4483,80,3478],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-iHV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71915"}],"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=71915"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72137,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71915\/revisions\/72137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}