{"id":475,"date":"2008-09-27T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=475"},"modified":"2008-09-27T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:45:22","slug":"the-most-democratic-of-color-combinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The most democratic of color combinations&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/garden\/index.html\">Home and Garden section<\/a> probably zeroed in on Anne Raver&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/25\/garden\/25garden.html?ex=1380081600&amp;en=3e809570e997643b&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">feature on White Flower Farm<\/a> and the accompanying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2008\/09\/25\/garden\/20080925-GARDEN_index.html\">slideshow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I sure did.  But another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/25\/garden\/25shopping.html?ex=1379995200&amp;en=4e78796c432ad512&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">story<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2008\/09\/25\/garden\/20080925_SHOPPING.html\">slideshow<\/a> (that had nothing to do with plants or gardening) extolling the virtues of blue and white also caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I drawn to blue pots, cobalt blue bottles and other blue accessories in the garden?  The bottles I can trace back to digging antique bottles out of old dumps I found in the woods.  Otherwise, all I can say it it might be the dearth of blue flowers I can actually grow.<\/p>\n<p>Blue bottle decorations<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/whim_blue_bot_flowerx500.jpg\" alt=\"blue bottles\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blue and white container water garden.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/wg_containerx500.jpg\" alt=\"blue container water garden\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blue cold frame against our blue house.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/10coldframe.jpg\" alt=\"blue cold frame\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of the New York Times Home and Garden section probably zeroed in on Anne Raver&#8217;s feature on White Flower Farm and the accompanying slideshow. I sure did. But another story and slideshow (that had nothing to do with plants or gardening) extolling the virtues of blue and white also caught my eye. Why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=475\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;The most democratic of color combinations&#8217;&#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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}