{"id":6169,"date":"2014-05-20T14:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/arizona-sun\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T21:01:05","slug":"arizona-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/arizona-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/arizona-sun.jpg' title='Arizona Sun'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/arizona-sun.jpg' alt='Arizona Sun' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took photos yesterday of some flowers on display outside the little department store on the west side. The one depicted above is a drought-tolerant variety of daisy called &#8220;Arizona Sun&#8221; (<em>Asteraceae Gaillardia<\/em>). According to several on-line sources, this flower attracts butterflies and after the flower petals fall off, they attract goldfinches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davesgarden.com\/guides\/pf\/go\/71471\/\">Dave&#8217;s Garden<\/a> has this additional information about this colorful flower:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Sun Exposure<\/strong>:<br \/>\nFull Sun<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bloom Color<\/strong>:<br \/>\nRed<br \/>\nRed-Orange<br \/>\nBright Yellow<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bloom Time<\/strong>:<br \/>\nMid Summer<br \/>\nLate Summer\/Early Fall<br \/>\nMid Fall<br \/>\nBlooms repeatedly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foliage<\/strong>:<br \/>\nHerbaceous<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other details<\/strong>:<br \/>\nThis plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and\/or birds<br \/>\nAverage Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater<br \/>\nSelf-sows freely; deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings next season\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took photos yesterday of some flowers on display outside the little department store on the west side. The one depicted above is a drought-tolerant variety&#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":[70,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169","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=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}