{"id":1213,"date":"2013-04-12T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T19:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2013-04-12T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T19:30:12","slug":"friday-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Friday flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is wet and dreary. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I could use a pick-me-up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00546.jpg\" alt=\"crocuses\" width=\"450\" height=\"310\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00546.jpg 450w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00546-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00558.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00558.jpg\" alt=\"snowdrops\" width=\"280\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00558.jpg 280w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00558-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00552.jpg\" alt=\"anemones\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00552.jpg 450w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00552-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel better already!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scilla_siberica\">squill<\/a> in my lawn for several years, but hadn&#8217;t gotten around to planting them. Last fall I finally did. They&#8217;re only a couple inches high. The tiny blue buds appear first, on leaves that are almost invisible among the grass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00563.jpg\" alt=\"squill buds\" width=\"275\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00563.jpg 275w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00563-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They unfurl into lovely blue flowers, scattered around the lawn. They&#8217;ll be gone by the time I have to mow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00596.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00596.jpg\" alt=\"squill\" width=\"398\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00596.jpg 398w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00596-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00599.jpg\" alt=\"squill\" width=\"252\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00599.jpg 252w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00599-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They will multiply over time, forming bunches of blue flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is wet and dreary. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I could use a pick-me-up. I feel better already! I&#8217;d wanted squill in my lawn for several years, but hadn&#8217;t gotten around to planting them. Last fall I finally did. They&#8217;re only a couple inches high. The tiny blue buds appear first, on leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,80,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-mood-enhancers","category-must-be-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}