{"id":2220,"date":"2016-08-29T00:17:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T00:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2016-08-29T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T00:22:00","slug":"a-few-late-summer-highlights-and-a-silly-hummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/29\/a-few-late-summer-highlights-and-a-silly-hummer\/","title":{"rendered":"A few late summer highlights and a silly hummer"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Hostas are very popular for their foliage. \u00a0I certainly understand that. \u00a0But I\u2019ve always thought their flowers have potential, too. \u00a0Here is the one in the Douglas fir bed doing the genus proud: $\"DSC06473\"$ <\/a>\n

In the same bed, the lavender asters are starting their show. \u00a0I watered that bed today, which \u00a0inevitably led to rain falling from the sky. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t enough rain to count, though, so I just kept watering.<\/p>\n

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The combination of sprinkler and clouds created some nice water drops on the Aquilegias.<\/p>\n

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Most of the poor shrub roses have been overwhelmed by bindweed, but this one stretched one branch out and bloomed again.<\/p>\n

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Below is a close-up of one of the flowers.<\/p>\n

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Here is one of the huge Prime Ark blackberries. \u00a0That is my thumbnail next to it for reference. \u00a0(And I don\u2019t have tiny little hands like some people.)<\/p>\n

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While the sprinkler was running, I had a little visitor come in for a bath! \u00a0And this time I had the camera with me!<\/p>\n

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I was probably within 12 feet of this charmer, and that didn\u2019t bother it at all!<\/p>\n

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Another view of the little bather.<\/p>\n

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And another.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hostas are very popular for their foliage. \u00a0I certainly understand that. \u00a0But I\u2019ve always thought their flowers have potential, too. \u00a0Here is the one in the Douglas fir bed doing the genus proud: In the same bed, the lavender asters are starting their show. \u00a0I watered that bed today, which \u00a0inevitably led to rain falling … Continue reading A few late summer highlights and a silly hummer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}