{"id":6714,"date":"2020-03-24T05:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T05:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2020-03-24T05:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T05:26:40","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-72-begonia-gryphon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/plant-a-day-2020-day-72-begonia-gryphon\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 72) Begonia &#8220;Gryphon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe this is my last surviving plant from the defunct Wight\u2019s nursery up in Lynnwood.  Brother Tim, sister Cate and I used to enjoy going there to look around\u2013they had some fun stuff.  They also had a large clearance area where they color-coded the sale plants.  This Gryphon begonia came from that rack\u2013it cost $1.00 and was a sad little thing.  No more!<\/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=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC06518-e1474267482970-653x1024.jpg?resize=474%2C743\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2285\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/19\/summer-is-coming-to-a-close\/dsc06518\/\" class=\"wp-image-2285\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC06518-e1474267482970.jpg?resize=653%2C1024 653w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC06518-e1474267482970.jpg?resize=191%2C300 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC06518-e1474267482970.jpg?resize=768%2C1205 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC06518-e1474267482970.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC06518-e1474267482970.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\/2019\/09\/IMG_7265.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5655\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/img_7265\/\" class=\"wp-image-5655\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_7265.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_7265.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_7265.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_7265.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_7265.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=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Begonia-unknown.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6715\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Begonia-unknown.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6715\" class=\"wp-image-6715\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This plant gets bigger and better every year.  We kept it in the kitchen over one winter and it stayed glorious the entire time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My 2020 plans are to top-dress the plant with fertile new soil and keep it on the shady side of the patio where it seems to thrive and I enjoy it during all the warm months as I walk by it on my way to the compost bin, the garbage bin, recycle bin, and the greenhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe this is my last surviving plant from the defunct Wight\u2019s nursery up in Lynnwood. Brother Tim, sister Cate and I used to enjoy going there to look around\u2013they had some fun stuff. They also had a large clearance area where they color-coded the sale plants. This Gryphon begonia came from that rack\u2013it cost &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/plant-a-day-2020-day-72-begonia-gryphon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 72) Begonia &#8220;Gryphon&#8221;<\/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-6714","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\/6714","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=6714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6716,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions\/6716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}