{"id":193,"date":"2007-07-07T18:55:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=193"},"modified":"2007-07-07T19:02:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T02:02:48","slug":"cuisse-de-nymphe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Cuisse de Nymphe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"images\/cuisse_de_nymphx1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"cuisse de nymphe\" SRC=\"images\/cuisse_de_nymphx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not much of a rose grower.  I&#8217;ve got two varieties.  One, &#8216;<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=13\">Princess Di<\/a>&#8216;, was sent to me out of the blue, unsolicited, by gardens.com shortly before they went out of business.  I&#8217;m still not sure why.  Maybe some PR thing like with the sloggers.  I <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=13\">posted<\/a> about it a couple years ago, and it still struggles in a bed that gets too little light and has too much competition from neighboring perennials.  Still, it put out a few blossoms this year.<\/p>\n<p>But my favorite rose (not hard to pick one when you only grow two) is &#8216;Cuisse de Nymphe&#8217;, which the English toned down to &#8216;Great Maiden&#8217;s Blush&#8217;.  I planted it soley based on a passage in one of Michael Pollan&#8217;s books where he waxed poetic about it, roughly translating the French to &#8216;thigh of an emoted nymphe&#8217;.  Sold me.<\/p>\n<p>While the three plants I bought haven&#8217;t thrived (lousy soil, not enough light, too much competition), each blossom is worth the effort.  And they smell even better than they look.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/cuisse_de_nymph_cu_2x1200.jpg\"><img ALT=\"cuisse de nymphe\" SRC=\"images\/cuisse_de_nymph_cu_2x500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of a rose grower. I&#8217;ve got two varieties. One, &#8216;Princess Di&#8216;, was sent to me out of the blue, unsolicited, by gardens.com shortly before they went out of business. I&#8217;m still not sure why. Maybe some PR thing like with the sloggers. I posted about it a couple years ago, and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cuisse de Nymphe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}