{"id":105,"date":"2007-04-14T16:33:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T23:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=105"},"modified":"2009-09-21T03:07:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T10:07:54","slug":"april-garden-bloggers-bloom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"April Garden Bloggers&#8217; Bloom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"images\/20070415x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/20070415x500.jpg\" alt=\"scan of april blooms \" \/><br \/>\nLarger image<\/a> | <a href=\"images\/20070415.jpg\">Extra large image<\/a> [1.4MB]<br \/>\nFor more about this technique, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=97\">Scanning Flowers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the cold weather this week, the garden has been in a state of suspended animation.  No daffodils or tulips yet, though the former are budding and the the latter did add some leaf.<\/p>\n<p>Small, low-growing spring ephemerals are about all that&#8217;s flowering.  Various iris are past their prime, most having been damaged by temps in the teens.  (Same goes for crocus.) Snowdrops are also past their prime on the south side, but in their prime on the north side of the house.  Hellebores are peaking.  Pulmonaria, primula and corydalis are coming on.  Cyclamen continue to bloom, as they have most of the winter.  Coltsfoot flowers show up here and there.  Willows are still putting on a show.<\/p>\n<p>This time of the year, foliage adds to the display.  Old and new heuchera leaves.  Lamium. Scotch thistle.  Emerging sedums.<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to do a little garden clean-up today.  The soil is still a little on the wet side.  Now I&#8217;ll say good-bye to the ground for awhile, what with a foot of snow predicted for Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larger image | Extra large image [1.4MB] For more about this technique, see Scanning Flowers. With the cold weather this week, the garden has been in a state of suspended animation. No daffodils or tulips yet, though the former are budding and the the latter did add some leaf. Small, low-growing spring ephemerals are about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;April Garden Bloggers&#8217; Bloom Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,55,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-perennials","category-bloom-day-scans","category-water-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}