{"id":9300,"date":"2020-11-15T17:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9300"},"modified":"2020-11-15T17:08:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T17:08:28","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-302-cephalaria-gigantea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/15\/plant-a-day-2020-day-302-cephalaria-gigantea\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 302) Cephalaria gigantea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I started these impressive perennials from seed over twenty years ago. They are growing on the street side of the orchard garden, seeding themselves around a bit every few years so that they haven\u2019t died out altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When growing happily, these plants can get six feet tall with dozens of pincushion-like (scabiosa-like, if you know what scabiosa flowers look like) flowers. The color is a soft cream and white. My own plants are too crowded to look their best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a Cephalaria survivor in November of 2020\u2026notice that it is throwing up buds even at this late date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future plans for these plants are to move a division or two to the memory garden where they will do more than survive\u2013and I expect their flowers will attract a lot of pollinators there in a sunnier spot.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started these impressive perennials from seed over twenty years ago. They are growing on the street side of the orchard garden, seeding themselves around a bit every few years so that they haven\u2019t died out altogether. When growing happily, these plants can get six feet tall with dozens of pincushion-like (scabiosa-like, if you know … Continue reading Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 302) Cephalaria gigantea<\/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-9300","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\/9300","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=9300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9301,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions\/9301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}