{"id":6610,"date":"2020-03-07T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T16:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2020-03-07T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T16:25:52","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-57-fritillaria-imperialis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/07\/plant-a-day-2020-day-57-fritillaria-imperialis\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 57) Fritillaria imperialis"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ordered from a catalog at least a dozen years ago, I was very surprised that this plant took to the Douglas fir bed so well and has not only grown but has spread a bit!  I planted it really deep and I have fertilized it with organic bulb food every so often.  It doesn\u2019t ask for much and the flowers are showy and quite interesting.  <\/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=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC07372-e1492308451478-768x1024.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3043\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC07372-e1492308451478.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/16\/busy-and-sunny-april-day\/dsc07372\/\" class=\"wp-image-3043\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC07372-e1492308451478.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, 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\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 2020, I\u2019ll tuck a fertilizer spike or two near this plant and then just work to avoid it as I transform its bed with native plants.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ordered from a catalog at least a dozen years ago, I was very surprised that this plant took to the Douglas fir bed so well and has not only grown but has spread a bit! I planted it really deep and I have fertilized it with organic bulb food every so often. It doesn\u2019t ask &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/07\/plant-a-day-2020-day-57-fritillaria-imperialis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 57) Fritillaria imperialis<\/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-6610","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\/6610","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=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6612,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}