{"id":9649,"date":"2020-12-27T04:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T04:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9649"},"modified":"2020-12-27T04:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T04:51:25","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-359-dioscorea-bulbifera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-359-dioscorea-bulbifera\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 359) Dioscorea bulbifera"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ordered \u201cpotatoes\u201d to start potato vines about seven years ago from eBay.  The first year, they hardly grew and the resulting vines were really attractive and tame.  However, it is easy to see the marauding nature of these vines and their ease of self propagation, to I didn\u2019t plant any in the garden.  They found homes in pots on the patio with taller plants they can climb on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019ve grown larger and even had bulbs in the leaf axils in the subsequent years.  The leaves are wonderful\u2013the vein pattern and texture are fantastic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20.jpg?resize=474%2C632\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"9650\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9650\" class=\"wp-image-9650\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20-scaled.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Potato-Vine-12.26.20-scaled.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leaves in the photo belong to D. bulbifera, but the flowers belong to Sinningia tubiflora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My future plans for these plants are to feed them a little better with Jobe\u2019s organic plant spikes and try to get more robust growth on them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered \u201cpotatoes\u201d to start potato vines about seven years ago from eBay. The first year, they hardly grew and the resulting vines were really attractive and tame. However, it is easy to see the marauding nature of these vines and their ease of self propagation, to I didn\u2019t plant any in the garden. They &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-359-dioscorea-bulbifera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 359) Dioscorea bulbifera<\/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-9649","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\/9649","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=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9651,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions\/9651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}