{"id":7541,"date":"2020-05-23T04:12:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T04:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=7541"},"modified":"2020-05-23T04:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T04:12:27","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-143-iris-sibirica-tonys-seedling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/23\/plant-a-day-2020-day-143-iris-sibirica-tonys-seedling\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 143) Iris sibirica &#8220;Tony&#8217;s Seedling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I joined the Pacific Bulb Society about seven years ago, I ordered a bunch of seeds from their seed exchange.  I joined an Iris group and did the same with them.  I had several iris plants make it to adulthood, but this is the only one still alive and thriving.  Unfortunately, this plant has ended up in semi-shade and it isn\u2019t blooming as robustly as I\u2019d like, but it still gets flowers and puts on a show.  <\/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_9002.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7543\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9002-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7543\" class=\"wp-image-7543\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_9002-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, 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data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/27\/the-best-the-garden-has-ever-looked\/dsc08233\/\" class=\"wp-image-4346\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08233-e1527395350874.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08233-e1527395350874.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08233-e1527395350874.jpg?w=1944 1944w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08233-e1527395350874.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08233-e1527395350874.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=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08161-e1526102115188-768x1024.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4287\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08161-e1526102115188.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/12\/the-bounty-of-spring\/dsc08161\/\" class=\"wp-image-4287\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08161-e1526102115188.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08161-e1526102115188.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08161-e1526102115188.jpg?w=1944 1944w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08161-e1526102115188.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC08161-e1526102115188.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flowers are fantastic in their season, but that season is maddeningly short.  I might get three weeks of color, if I\u2019m lucky.  The plants don\u2019t add much to the garden after that, so I try to grow other scene stealers that bloom a bit later nearby to distract from the plain iris leaves.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My 2020 plans for this plant are to divide it and move a division or two the memory garden where it can get some sun and maybe bloom more prolifically.  My next iris seed starting efforts will be to grow some native Seattle iris species.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I joined the Pacific Bulb Society about seven years ago, I ordered a bunch of seeds from their seed exchange. I joined an Iris group and did the same with them. I had several iris plants make it to adulthood, but this is the only one still alive and thriving. Unfortunately, this plant has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/23\/plant-a-day-2020-day-143-iris-sibirica-tonys-seedling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 143) Iris sibirica &#8220;Tony&#8217;s Seedling&#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-7541","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\/7541","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=7541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7547,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7541\/revisions\/7547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}