{"id":8923,"date":"2020-10-04T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2020-10-04T20:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T20:34:25","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-258-elymus-glaucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/04\/plant-a-day-2020-day-258-elymus-glaucus\/","title":{"rendered":"PLant-A-Day 2020 (Day 258) Elymus glaucus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Known as blue wild rye, this grass is native to Seattle. I started a bunch of seedlings this year (2020) to add to the native plant garden. Luckily, they germinated well and I have about thirty starts, some that have been planted out already and others that are waiting to go into the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Native grasses are important food for native food webs, and I\u2019m really hoping this grass attracts some woodland skipper butterflies to lay their eggs next year so I can have more of these skittish flyers in and around the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m mixing some other prairie or meadow plants with the blue rye grass to hopefully create a space that butterflies and other pollinators love. <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Known as blue wild rye, this grass is native to Seattle. I started a bunch of seedlings this year (2020) to add to the native plant garden. Luckily, they germinated well and I have about thirty starts, some that have been planted out already and others that are waiting to go into the garden. Native … Continue reading PLant-A-Day 2020 (Day 258) Elymus glaucus<\/span> →<\/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-8923","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\/8923","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=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8926,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions\/8926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}