{"id":360,"date":"2009-02-19T04:26:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T04:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-02-22T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T22:47:09","slug":"first-crocus-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"First Crocus at Last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I finally got to walk around the property with daylight (as opposed to my initial flashlight tour last night), I did discover that the first of the species Crocus have popped up. \u00a0This is good because I was going to disown them if they held off much longer. \u00a0It was kind of a grey morning and I made a full tour before the snow started about 9am. \u00a0I saw lots of green shoots coming up from the Daffodils and Tulips but the Crocus were the only flower besides the earlier Winter Aconite and Snowdrops.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_361\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-361\" title=\"first-crocus\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.macfusion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/first-crocus.jpg\" alt=\"First Crocus of the Season\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/first-crocus.jpg 640w, http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/first-crocus-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Crocus of the Season<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also took note of the Amaryllis that have finally done their thing. \u00a0We have two potted up and one is a double bulb and puts up multiple shoots. \u00a0The other is an apple blossom type. \u00a0Together they encourage me to think about planting some Amaryllis in the ground. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_362\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"size-full wp-image-362\" title=\"big-amaryllis-wide\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.macfusion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/big-amaryllis-wide.jpg\" alt=\"Big Amaryllis Pot\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/big-amaryllis-wide.jpg 640w, http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/big-amaryllis-wide-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Amaryllis Pot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_363\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-363\" title=\"apple-blossom-type\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.macfusion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/apple-blossom-type.jpg\" alt=\"Apple blossom type of Amaryllis\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/apple-blossom-type.jpg 640w, http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/apple-blossom-type-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple blossom type of Amaryllis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The other nice thing that happened today was the arrival of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaticanursery.com\/\">Asiatica<\/a> order. \u00a0This is a rare plant nursery that son Jonathan introduced me to. \u00a0They have some really unusual plants and their web pages or catalog are well worth perusing. \u00a0As it happens I had seen the Adonis while at the January Rock Garden Society \u00a0Meeting in Reston. \u00a0They have spectacular early yellow flowers and that seemed like a good idea to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_364\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"size-full wp-image-364\" title=\"asiatica-order\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.macfusion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/asiatica-order.jpg\" alt=\"Shipping order from Asiatica\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/asiatica-order.jpg 640w, http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/asiatica-order-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping order from Asiatica<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We got 2 Adonis and an example \u00a0of the Hepatica japonica that Jon &amp; Tuna have mentioned a lot<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_365\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-365\" title=\"hepatica-asiatica-var-japonica-single-purple\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.macfusion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hepatica-asiatica-var-japonica-single-purple.jpg\" alt=\"Hepatica for Asiatica \" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hepatica-asiatica-var-japonica-single-purple.jpg 640w, http:\/\/macgardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/hepatica-asiatica-var-japonica-single-purple-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hepatica from Asiatica <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I finally got to walk around the property with daylight (as opposed to my initial flashlight tour last night), I did discover that the first of the species Crocus have popped up. \u00a0This is good because I was going to disown them if they held off much longer. \u00a0It was kind of a grey morning and I made a full tour before the snow started about 9am. \u00a0I saw lots of green shoots coming up from the Daffodils and Tulips but the Crocus were the only flower besides the earlier Winter Aconite and Snowdrops. \u00a0 I also took note [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-gardens","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}