{"id":9471,"date":"2020-11-27T04:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9471"},"modified":"2020-11-27T04:28:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:28:23","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-323-tolmiea-menziesii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-323-tolmiea-menziesii\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 323) Tolmiea menziesii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in the 70s when I was just a kid, I remember stores selling piggyback plants in the houseplant section. Later on, when we moved to Kent and I had access to an undisturbed forest to wander in, I found these plants growing on the forest floor! It still fascinates me that a temperate plant like Tomiea can be grown in houses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that I\u2019m focused on native plants in my own yard, the piggyback plant is back in my life. I added one plant to the garden last year and it has grown well. I never paid attention to the flowers of these plants, but I saw blooms this year and the flowers are intricate and beautiful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My future hopes for this plant are to pull some babies from the leaves or divisions from around the plant and spread them around the native garden. I might pull one into the greenhouse as a stock plant to produce lots of babies in the future, as well.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the 70s when I was just a kid, I remember stores selling piggyback plants in the houseplant section. Later on, when we moved to Kent and I had access to an undisturbed forest to wander in, I found these plants growing on the forest floor! It still fascinates me that a temperate plant … Continue reading Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 323) Tolmiea menziesii<\/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-9471","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\/9471","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=9471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9477,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471\/revisions\/9477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}