{"id":3328,"date":"2010-02-25T19:13:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/icelandic-poppies\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T19:23:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:23:40","slug":"icelandic-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/icelandic-poppies\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Poppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/yellow-icelandic.jpg' title='yellow-icelandic.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/yellow-icelandic.thumbnail.jpg' alt='yellow-icelandic.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>When the winter months roll around, you see a lot of flowers that are tolerant of the winter weather in California. We don&#8217;t have harsh weather along the coastline, but the nights are noticeably colder, often getting into the low 40&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>A popular annual we see planted in flowerbeds is the Icelandic Poppy. I recently purchased some for the planters on our front porch. This bright yellow one bloomed just yesterday. I took this picture this morning, just when it was facing almost directly at the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papaver_nudicaule\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Iceland Poppy is a boreal flowering plant. Native to subpolar regions of northern Europe and North America, Iceland poppies are hardy but short-lived perennials, grown as biennials, that yield large, papery, bowl-shaped, lightly fragrant flowers supported by hairy, 1-foot, curved stems among feathery blue-green foliage 1-6 inches long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the winter months roll around, you see a lot of flowers that are tolerant of the winter weather in California. We don&#8217;t have harsh weather&#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":[6,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-home-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","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=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}