{"id":8879,"date":"2020-10-04T02:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T02:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=8879"},"modified":"2020-10-04T02:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T02:51:09","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-252-dahlia-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/04\/plant-a-day-2020-day-252-dahlia-hybrids\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 252) Dahlia hybrids"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Leon\u2019s favorite flowers, I try to build dahlias into the landscape or patio pots every year.  Lately, I\u2019ve just had a few of the dwarfer anemone-flowered types in pots on the driveway and there is one waterlily-flowered survivor in the driveway bed.  <\/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\/10\/IMG_0963-2.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8884\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0963-2-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/img_0963-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-8884\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0963-2-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_9893-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_9893-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_9893-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_9893-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_9893-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_9893-scaled.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=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC07686.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3512\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC07686.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/catching-up-after-a-busy-summer\/dsc07686\/\" class=\"wp-image-3512\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC07686.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC07686.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC07686.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC07686.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC07686.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 plans for dahlias in the future include adding a few new varieties next year to the various beds and pots.  I\u2019ll need to add some bigger pots, too,  for them to really show their colors\u2013the smaller pots don\u2019t seem to work well.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Leon\u2019s favorite flowers, I try to build dahlias into the landscape or patio pots every year. Lately, I\u2019ve just had a few of the dwarfer anemone-flowered types in pots on the driveway and there is one waterlily-flowered survivor in the driveway bed. My plans for dahlias in the future include adding a few &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/04\/plant-a-day-2020-day-252-dahlia-hybrids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 252) Dahlia hybrids<\/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-8879","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\/8879","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=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}