{"id":6383,"date":"2020-02-08T15:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T15:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2020-02-08T20:33:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T20:33:27","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-30-pelargonium-petals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/08\/plant-a-day-2020-day-30-pelargonium-petals\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 29) Pelargonium Petals"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plants I\u2019ve had the longest were gifts\u2013mostly from my brother, Tim.  \u201cPetals\u201d is no exception.  I\u2019ve had this plant in my collection for over 25 years\u2013but not the same plant.  I\u2019ve taken dozens of cuttings and so I always have a few of them to tuck into patio pots in the spring or to brighten up the greenhouse any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC06423.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2153\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC06423.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/21\/more-plant-inventory-and-greenhouse-clean-up\/dsc06423\/\" class=\"wp-image-2153\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC06423.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_5656.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_5656.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_5656.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5789.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4685\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5789.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/october-color\/img_5789\/\" class=\"wp-image-4685\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5789.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5789.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5789.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5789.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_5789.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This cultivar has amazing foliage.  The flowers are a nice pink, but it isn\u2019t particularly floriferous for me.  It tends to grow very leggy, so I have to pinch ruthlessly to get any kind of shape other than a leafy stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My 2020 goals for this plant are to take a few more cuttings, to prune back the plants I have and move them into larger pots with fertile soil.  Some of them live in window-box-type pots that I place on the patio and I will topdress those and prune them back hard in the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Petals2.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6389\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Petals.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6390\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plants I\u2019ve had the longest were gifts\u2013mostly from my brother, Tim. \u201cPetals\u201d is no exception. I\u2019ve had this plant in my collection for over 25 years\u2013but not the same plant. I\u2019ve taken dozens of cuttings and so I always have a few of them to tuck into patio pots in the spring or to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/08\/plant-a-day-2020-day-30-pelargonium-petals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 29) Pelargonium Petals<\/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-6383","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\/6383","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=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}