{"id":11585,"date":"2014-04-27T16:51:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T20:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2014-04-27T19:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T23:01:58","slug":"sunday-flower-pr0n-flowers-in-my-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11585","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Flower Pr0n: Flowers in My Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a great deal of time planting flowers and flowering shrubs in my yard, because I like flowers, and I like seeing them (there are a lot of flowers planted along my driveway, so I can see them every day, getting into and out of the car).<\/p>\n<p>We had a flowering broom behind the house, but it died when we put in the parking space (it affected the drainage) we now have a Flowering Dogwood (<em>Cornus florida L.<\/em>) which has survived in the spot.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14059644843\" title=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_029 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7041\/14059644843_548a8988f6_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_029\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WV state flower: <em>Rhododendron <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14040091774\" title=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_002 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5504\/14040091774_5afe2f14cb_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_002\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course I have Virginia bluebells (<em>Mertensia virginica<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14036425972\" title=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_017 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2902\/14036425972_a31b50f7be_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_017\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Japanese Andromeda (<em>Pieris japonica Compacta<\/em>) was Michael&#8217;s pick.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14040086604\" title=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_009 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7367\/14040086604_3bb479fdd6_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_009\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tulips aren&#8217;t generally my favorite, but I love the color of this one:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14036443091\" title=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_022 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5225\/14036443091_996a08a0c5_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_022\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This flowering quince (<em>Chaenomeles speciosa<\/em>) isn&#8217;t in my yard, but all along the alley behind my house.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/14016500346\" title=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_032 by Michelle Klishis, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2922\/14016500346_fea51a8b78_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20140427_Spring_Flowers_032\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trillium bloomed, but isn&#8217;t particularly photogenic after the cold snaps. My lavender didn&#8217;t survive the winter, nor did the heather, which I planted when we first moved here. The white bleeding heart didn&#8217;t come back, and although the pink bleeding heart came back, the late freezes killed the buds&#8211;so no flowers.<\/p>\n<p>There are several other plants I&#8217;m watching, but I fear didn&#8217;t survive this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a great deal of time planting flowers and flowering shrubs in my yard, because I like flowers, and I like seeing them (there are a lot of flowers planted along my driveway, so I can see them every day, getting into and out of the car). We had a flowering broom behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1072,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-house-garden","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-30R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}