{"id":7888,"date":"2020-06-11T04:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T04:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2020-06-11T04:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T04:22:29","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-162-dianthus-deltoides-arctic-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/11\/plant-a-day-2020-day-162-dianthus-deltoides-arctic-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 162) Dianthus deltoides “Arctic Fire”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have a bunch of these low-growing plants in the front row of the memory garden, all started from seed in 2018. They put on a remarkable flower show in June, but then the hundreds of flower stems with seeds turn brown and look pretty miserable unless I find time to clip them all off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n