{"id":8937,"date":"2020-10-04T23:55:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T23:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2020-10-04T23:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T23:55:56","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-261-echinops-ritro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/04\/plant-a-day-2020-day-261-echinops-ritro\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 261) Echinops ritro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This giant thistle-like perennial takes the place of a shrub in the summer and early fall. It gets covered with globe-shaped bluish flowers on five- to six-foot stalks cloaked in silvery green thistle-like foliage. I\u2019ve had the main plant of Echinops for twenty years or more. It has seeded around a bit, but not invasively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My future plans for these plants are to keep them trimmed and tidy after they finish blooming and feed and water only as needed to try to control their exhuberant growth.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This giant thistle-like perennial takes the place of a shrub in the summer and early fall. It gets covered with globe-shaped bluish flowers on five- to six-foot stalks cloaked in silvery green thistle-like foliage. I\u2019ve had the main plant of Echinops for twenty years or more. It has seeded around a bit, but not invasively. … Continue reading Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 261) Echinops ritro<\/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-8937","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\/8937","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=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8943,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions\/8943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}