{"id":2635,"date":"2009-03-24T17:56:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T00:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/freesias\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T00:56:34","slug":"freesias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/freesias\/","title":{"rendered":"Freesias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blue-freesias.jpg' title='blue-freesias.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blue-freesias.thumbnail.jpg' alt='blue-freesias.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>For a couple of years now, these freesias have popped up in the spring to grace the flowerpots for a few days. This one is a &#8216;blue-mauve&#8217; variety with a delicate, pleasant fragrance. Click image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>I also have some red and pink ones elsewhere in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>WikiPedia says this about freesias:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freesias are very popular garden plants, grown for their often strongly scented flowers ranging from white to yellow, pink, red and blue-mauve. They are widely cultivated and readily increased from seed. Due to their specific and pleasing scent, they are often used in hand creams, shampoos, candles, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of years now, these freesias have popped up in the spring to grace the flowerpots for a few days. This one is a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}