{"id":8502,"date":"2020-09-01T03:43:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T03:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2020-09-01T03:43:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T03:43:52","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-222-kniphophia-thompsonii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/01\/plant-a-day-2020-day-222-kniphophia-thompsonii\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 222) Kniphophia thompsonii"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Purchased from Annie\u2019s Annuals in 2017 for the memory garden, this is a more elegant version of the popular red-hot-poker.  The plant grows to about three feet high for me with long, thin, grass-like leaves and g late spring flower spikes of well-spaced orange and yellow tubular blooms.  It tends to bloom again when cool weather returns in the early autumn, and I\u2019m hopeful it will do that again.<\/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=\"404\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6968-e1561936548570-404x1024.jpg?resize=404%2C1024\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5435\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6968-e1561936548570.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/img_6968\/\" class=\"wp-image-5435\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6968-e1561936548570.jpg?resize=404%2C1024 404w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6968-e1561936548570.jpg?resize=768%2C1944 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6968-e1561936548570.jpg?w=1501 1501w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6968-e1561936548570.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6968-e1561936548570.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Kniphofia June 2019<\/figcaption><\/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\/2019\/11\/IMG_7556-e1572745774284-768x1024.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5947\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_7556-e1572745774284.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/img_7556\/\" class=\"wp-image-5947\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_7556-e1572745774284.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_7556-e1572745774284.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_7556-e1572745774284.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_7556-e1572745774284.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 future plans for this plant are to divide it (possibly this autumn) and plant more around the memory garden.  I\u2019ll also feed it in September to try to coax it to get a few more bloom spikes before it shuts down for the winter.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchased from Annie\u2019s Annuals in 2017 for the memory garden, this is a more elegant version of the popular red-hot-poker. The plant grows to about three feet high for me with long, thin, grass-like leaves and g late spring flower spikes of well-spaced orange and yellow tubular blooms. It tends to bloom again when cool &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/01\/plant-a-day-2020-day-222-kniphophia-thompsonii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 222) Kniphophia thompsonii<\/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-8502","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\/8502","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=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8504,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}