{"id":4546,"date":"2015-04-22T21:41:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T02:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2015-04-22T21:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T02:41:32","slug":"bluebells-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=4546","title":{"rendered":"Bluebells on the River"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"A<\/a>

A sea of bluebells<\/p><\/div>\n

At this time of year you can go to most places along the potomac watershed and see hosts of bluebells (Mertensia virginica). \u00a0Our favorite bluebell hot spot is the Worthington Farm<\/a>, a part of the Monocacy National Battlefield, that is about 2 miles from our house. \u00a0The trail down to the river runs through a woodland that is covered with spring beauties (Claytonia virginica).<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The path through the spring beauties requires looking closely at the ground<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The spring beauties come in white or pink versions<\/p><\/div>\n

Note the pink stamens.<\/p>\n

\"These<\/a>

These delicate little flowers are really tough as nails in the right conditions.<\/p><\/div>\n

The path to the bluebells also has many star of Bethlehem<\/p>\n

\"Ornithogalum<\/a>

Ornithogalum nutans<\/p><\/div>\n

When you get to\u00a0the river the\u00a0annual explosion of bluebells is very difficult to capture in the camera lens.<\/p>\n

\"Bluebells<\/a>

Bluebells along the path<\/p><\/div>\n

Note how high the river is after a thunderstorm in the mountains the night before.<\/p>\n

\"Bluebells<\/a>

Bluebells against the river background<\/p><\/div>\n

Individually the bluebells usually have pink buds that turn to blue, but they can be pink or even white.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The bluebells can be pink<\/p><\/div>\n

\"White<\/a>

White bluebells<\/p><\/div>\n

In any case it’s a great time to go out a see the wildflowers, in addition to growing your own…:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At this time of year you can go to most places along the potomac watershed and see hosts of bluebells (Mertensia virginica). \u00a0Our favorite bluebell hot spot is the Worthington Farm, a part of the Monocacy National Battlefield, that is about 2 miles from our house. \u00a0The trail down to the river runs through a woodland that is covered with spring beauties (Claytonia virginica). Note the pink stamens. The path to the bluebells also has many star of Bethlehem When you get to\u00a0the river the\u00a0annual explosion of bluebells is very difficult to capture in the camera lens. Note how high […]<\/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":[4,9],"tags":[38,46],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-signs-of-spring","tag-flowers","tag-signs-of-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}