{"id":7498,"date":"2020-05-16T04:02:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=7498"},"modified":"2020-05-16T04:02:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T04:02:16","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-136-geranium-pratense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/16\/plant-a-day-2020-day-136-geranium-pratense\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 136) Geranium Pratense"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I purchased seeds for Geranium pratense \u201cPurple Haze.\u201d  I think the packet was 5 seeds and I ended up with three plants, two purplish ones and one green one.  This was in 2018.  I planted them together in the memory garden.  The plain green plant is thriving.  The purple ones lag seriously behind but their foliage is really quite striking.  I may just have to move the green  one so it doesn\u2019t crowd them out and embarrass Purple Haze\u2019s weak growth.<\/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 decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8919-scaled.jpg?fit=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7500\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8919-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7500\" class=\"wp-image-7500\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8919-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8913-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8913-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8913-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8913-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8913-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_8913-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 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=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6770-e1558930750295-781x1024.jpg?resize=474%2C621\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5294\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6770-e1558930750295.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/img_6770\/\" class=\"wp-image-5294\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6770-e1558930750295.jpg?resize=781%2C1024 781w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6770-e1558930750295.jpg?resize=229%2C300 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6770-e1558930750295.jpg?resize=768%2C1007 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6770-e1558930750295.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6770-e1558930750295.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Geranium pratense May 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 2020, I will rearrange these plants to give them more room to spread out, feed them well, and harvest some seeds if there are any.  So far, this variety has not proven to be weedy or seedy at all, so that is another excellent trait.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased seeds for Geranium pratense \u201cPurple Haze.\u201d I think the packet was 5 seeds and I ended up with three plants, two purplish ones and one green one. This was in 2018. I planted them together in the memory garden. The plain green plant is thriving. The purple ones lag seriously behind but their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/16\/plant-a-day-2020-day-136-geranium-pratense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 136) Geranium Pratense<\/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-7498","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\/7498","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=7498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7508,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498\/revisions\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}