{"id":9660,"date":"2020-12-27T05:41:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9660"},"modified":"2020-12-27T05:41:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T05:41:15","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-361-malva-mystic-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-361-malva-mystic-merlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 361) Malva &#8216;Mystic Merlin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sister Cate passed me this plant at least twenty years ago.  It is one of those plants that volunteers at its own discretion, not plentifully every year.  Also, it seems like the seeds lie in wait for a few years and then resurface in the border, or in a crack in the driveway\u2013you just never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, malvas get rust here in Seattle in the worst way.  If these plants get a strong start in their first year, they can put on a magical (or mystical) show. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mystic-Merlin3.jpg?resize=474%2C711\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9661\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mystic-Merlin3.jpg?w=683 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mystic-Merlin3.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mystic-Merlin2.jpg?resize=474%2C711\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9662\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mystic-Merlin2.jpg?w=683 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mystic-Merlin2.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mystic-MErlin.jpg?resize=474%2C711\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9663\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mystic-MErlin.jpg?w=683 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mystic-MErlin.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t have any plans for Mystic Merlin because there aren\u2019t any in the garden this year that I know of; but they will magically rise again.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Cate passed me this plant at least twenty years ago. It is one of those plants that volunteers at its own discretion, not plentifully every year. Also, it seems like the seeds lie in wait for a few years and then resurface in the border, or in a crack in the driveway\u2013you just never &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-361-malva-mystic-merlin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 361) Malva &#8216;Mystic Merlin&#8217;<\/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-9660","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\/9660","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=9660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9664,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions\/9664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}