{"id":6575,"date":"2015-05-02T20:07:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/ocotillo-flowers-opening\/"},"modified":"2015-05-02T20:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T03:07:56","slug":"ocotillo-flowers-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/ocotillo-flowers-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocotillo Flowers Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ocotillo-flowers.jpg' title='Ocotillo Flowers'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ocotillo-flowers.jpg' alt='Ocotillo Flowers' width='350' class='left' \/><\/a>Many of the little flower buds in this cluster on our ocotillo are now open. We <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/03\/ocotillo-flowers-coming\/\">saw them coming<\/a>, but now they&#8217;re here. We have waited for quite some time for flowers since this specimen replaced the dead ocotillo last year.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of three flower clusters currently opening on the ocotillo. There are seven or eight &#8220;canes&#8221; or stalks, but only two are showing flower clusters. The other cane with flowers actually has two clusters, one growing on a separate branch near the top of the cane.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the more mature ocotillos we see around town and in the desert are showing flowers on nearly every cane. We&#8217;re hoping that our plant will follow suit in a year or two.<\/p>\n<p>This picture was taken about mid morning when the light was fairly good to capture this view of the flower cluster. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the little flower buds in this cluster on our ocotillo are now open. We saw them coming, but now they&#8217;re here. We have waited&#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-6575","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\/6575","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=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}