{"id":1152,"date":"2009-08-16T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2009-08-16T18:45:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T01:45:24","slug":"wildflower-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wildflower-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"wildflower gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1163\" title=\"blue columbines\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_1514.jpg\" alt=\"blue columbines\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_1514.jpg 300w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_1514-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In my world,\u00a0 flower gardening means\u00a0weeding.There&#8217;s nothing to plant.\u00a0\u00a0 I let all native wildflower volunteers grow and remove most\u00a0 (can you ever get them all?)\u00a0invasive weeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1168\" title=\"paintbrush\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_1484.jpg\" alt=\"paintbrush\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_1484.jpg 300w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_1484-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wildflowers have\u00a0grown so much in this\u00a0summer of rain the garden path has almost disappeared. Bees buzz busily at the flowers and ignore me as I push through on the path.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1158\" title=\"wild blue flax\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wildblueflax1382.jpg\" alt=\"wild blue flax\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wildblueflax1382.jpg 300w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wildblueflax1382-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0learned the common names of all the plants several years ago, but have forgotten many.\u00a0 There are wild roses, bellflowers and blanket flowers, asters and daisies,\u00a0and pussytoes\u00a0just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1175\" title=\"blanket flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_3785.jpg\" alt=\"blanket flowers\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_3785.jpg 300w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_3785-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Granite gravel soil\u00a0makes weed removal\u00a0rough, hard\u00a0work. The tall dandelion with enormous sead head is allowed to stay as it doesn&#8217;t spread and take over like the shorter\u00a0invasive ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1154\" title=\"dandelion\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_3797.jpg\" alt=\"dandelion\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_3797.jpg 450w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_3797-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let nature do it&#8217;s thing. Photography it.<\/p>\n<p>Wildflower gardener. That&#8217;s me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 In my world,\u00a0 flower gardening means\u00a0weeding.There&#8217;s nothing to plant.\u00a0\u00a0 I let all native wildflower volunteers grow and remove most\u00a0 (can you ever get them all?)\u00a0invasive weeds. \u00a0 The wildflowers have\u00a0grown so much in this\u00a0summer of rain the garden path has almost disappeared. Bees buzz busily at the flowers and ignore me as I push [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}