{"id":6378,"date":"2020-07-06T00:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T00:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=6378"},"modified":"2020-08-06T04:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T04:59:59","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-28-agapanthus-praecox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/plant-a-day-2020-day-28-agapanthus-praecox\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 28) Agapanthus praecox"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note: this one is out of order, as I failed to post it on the right day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often when you order seeds online, the seed seller adds a bonus packet or two in the package as a thank you for ordering.  Sometimes that \u201cgift\u201d has seemingly little value, like mixed Bachelor\u2019s Buttons or old carrot seeds. When I ordered some seeds from Africa, though, the seller included Agapanthus praecox seeds\u2013just a few of them.  I was skeptical that I could grow them, but I gave it a whirl.  I\u2019m so glad I did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two of the seeds sprouted and grew and I\u2019ve grown them on together.  Here is what the plant looks like today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0318-1.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8426\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0318-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0318-1-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0318-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0318-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0318-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, 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768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Agapanthus-praecox2-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Agapanthus-praecox2-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Agapanthus-praecox2-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Agapanthus-praecox2-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Agapanthus-praecox1.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6381\" loading=\"lazy\" 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\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: this one is out of order, as I failed to post it on the right day. Often when you order seeds online, the seed seller adds a bonus packet or two in the package as a thank you for ordering. Sometimes that \u201cgift\u201d has seemingly little value, like mixed Bachelor\u2019s Buttons or old carrot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/plant-a-day-2020-day-28-agapanthus-praecox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 28) Agapanthus praecox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-6378","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\/6378","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=6378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8427,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions\/8427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}