{"id":9114,"date":"2020-10-27T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9114"},"modified":"2020-10-27T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T04:30:13","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-275-vinca-minor-ralph-shurgert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-275-vinca-minor-ralph-shurgert\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 275) Vinca minor &#8220;Ralph Shurgert&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After we added the woodland garden and pond over twenty years ago, I gave Leon this plant as an anniversary gift.\u00a0 It has stayed politely in place and blooms beautifully in early spring.\u00a0 The leaves are handsomely variegated, splashed just enough with white to sparkle, but without looking unnatural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We do nothing to care for this plant.\u00a0 We water the entire garden a few times in the driest parts of summer and that\u2019s it\u2014but it seems to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><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_1021-2.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9115\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1021-2-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1021-2-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1021-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1021-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1021-2-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1021-2-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1021-2-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My future plans with this plant are to grab some rooted divisions from around the outside of the plant and pot them up for adding to other parts of the garden or to give away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After we added the woodland garden and pond over twenty years ago, I gave Leon this plant as an anniversary gift.\u00a0 It has stayed politely in place and blooms beautifully in early spring.\u00a0 The leaves are handsomely variegated, splashed just enough with white to sparkle, but without looking unnatural. We do nothing to care for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-275-vinca-minor-ralph-shurgert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 275) Vinca minor &#8220;Ralph Shurgert&#8221;<\/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-9114","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\/9114","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=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9117,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions\/9117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}