{"id":9672,"date":"2020-12-27T17:55:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2020-12-27T17:55:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:55:48","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-363-asclepias-speciosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-363-asclepias-speciosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 363) Asclepias speciosa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While native to Washington, I\u2019ve come to realize this plant is only native to the east-side of the state. But I started several from seed this year for the native garden. Oops. It will be a bit of a miracle if they ever get to blooming size, anyway. They seem to be slow to develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This plant family has some interesting looking flowers, though most of the plants themselves are a bit coarse. A. speciosa is no exception. I guess that\u2019s why they are called milkweeds. But wherever they are native, they are definitely not unwanted weeds to the many insects and animals that rely on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve already set the seedlings out into the meadow portion of my garden. Now, it\u2019s just a waiting game to see if they leaf back out, then put some growth on to get to blooming size in the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While native to Washington, I\u2019ve come to realize this plant is only native to the east-side of the state. But I started several from seed this year for the native garden. Oops. It will be a bit of a miracle if they ever get to blooming size, anyway. They seem to be slow to develop. … Continue reading Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 363) Asclepias speciosa<\/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-9672","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\/9672","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=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9678,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions\/9678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}