{"id":686,"date":"2009-06-09T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=686"},"modified":"2009-06-09T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T21:42:06","slug":"nectaroscordum-siculum-ssp-bulgaricum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid, I used to take chunks of  all four glow-in-the-dark colors of Play-Doh and work them in to one lump.  I&#8217;d keep kneading that lump until the colors formed psychedelic patterns.  My very own hunk of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petermax.com\/\">Peter Max<\/a>.  But if you worked that hunk too much, the colors all blended together to dull gray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/necto5x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/necto5x500.jpg\" alt=\"Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that got to do with <em>Nectaroscordum siculum<\/em> ssp. bulgaricum, my favorite flower this time of the year?  From a distance, it&#8217;s pretty homely.  All the subtle colors blend together and the eye turns them to  a barely noticeable grayish green.  But if you get up close, it&#8217;s a mixed sherbet delight.  The colors also change dramatically  depending on the light.<\/p>\n<p>The structure is a bonus &#8212; interesting enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=592\">inspire this sculpture<\/a> from some pictures I took I took last year.<\/p>\n<p>More <em>Nectaroscordum siculum<\/em> ssp. bulgaricum than you probably want to see.  But hey.  It&#8217;s a favorite&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/necto5cux1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/necto5cux500.jpg\" alt=\"Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/necto3cux1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/necto3cux500.jpg\" alt=\"Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/necto4x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/necto4x500.jpg\" alt=\"Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/necto1x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/necto1x500.jpg\" alt=\"Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/necto4cux1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/necto4cux500.jpg\" alt=\"Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/necto3x1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/necto3x500.jpg\" alt=\"Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid, I used to take chunks of all four glow-in-the-dark colors of Play-Doh and work them in to one lump. I&#8217;d keep kneading that lump until the colors formed psychedelic patterns. My very own hunk of Peter Max. But if you worked that hunk too much, the colors all blended together to dull &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nectaroscordum siculum ssp. bulgaricum&#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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perennials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}