{"id":7490,"date":"2020-05-15T04:16:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2020-06-06T03:59:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T03:59:23","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-135-geranium-biokovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/15\/plant-a-day-2020-day-135-geranium-biokovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 135) Geranium &#8220;Biokovo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the bigroot geranium as one of its parents, this naturally occuring hybrid has similar habits as its G. macrorrhizum parent, but is much less sturdy.  I received on of these plants many years ago and it has survived among the G. macrorrhizum around it, but has not spread much.  The flowers are a nice white color and the leaves color up nicely in the fall.  This is one of the few hardy geraniums in my yard that isn\u2019t trying to take over.<\/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\/2020\/05\/IMG_8901.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7491\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8901-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7491\" class=\"wp-image-7491\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8901-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8901-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8899-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8899-1-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8899-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8899-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8899-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8899-1-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8899-1-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My 2020 plans for this plant will be to carve some space around it and feed it to try to give it a fighting chance in the Douglas fir bed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 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\/2020\/06\/IMG_9299.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7728\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_9299-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/img_9299\/\" class=\"wp-image-7728\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_9299-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, 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less sturdy. I received on of these plants many years ago and it has survived among the G. macrorrhizum around it, but has not spread much. The flowers are a nice &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/15\/plant-a-day-2020-day-135-geranium-biokovo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 135) Geranium &#8220;Biokovo&#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-7490","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\/7490","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=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7813,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions\/7813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}