{"id":168,"date":"2008-02-21T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T04:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-02-21T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T04:25:41","slug":"hellebore-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Hellebore surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/02\/21\/hellebore-surprise\/mygarden-01a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/MyGarden_01a.jpg\" alt=\"MyGarden 01a\" title=\"MyGarden 01a\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/MyGarden_01a.jpg 337w, https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/MyGarden_01a-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/02\/21\/hellebore-surprise\/mygarden-01b\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/MyGarden_01b.jpg\" alt=\"MyGarden 01b\" title=\"MyGarden 01b\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/MyGarden_01b.jpg 450w, https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/MyGarden_01b-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/2008\/02\/21\/hellebore-surprise\/mygarden-01c\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/MyGarden_01c.jpg\" alt=\"MyGarden 01c\" title=\"MyGarden 01c\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/MyGarden_01c.jpg 450w, https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/MyGarden_01c-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the ivory <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellebore\">hellebore<\/a><\/strong> flower in the background of two of these photos? I&#8217;ve had that one for a couple of years, and it&#8217;s been in the same pot for at least a year. I was surprised and happy to see the magenta hellebore buds spring up this year. I&#8217;m not sure where the magenta plant came from. I think I did have a hellebore that color once but it died three or four years ago. So maybe some remnants of it were left in the soil, or maybe a bird deposited seeds in the pot.<\/p>\n<p>Either way \u2013 bonus hellebore! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMagenta and ivory live together in perfect harmony side by side in the same container on my balcony. \u201c (A crappy take-off on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&#038;searchlink=STEVIE|WONDER&#038;sql=11:fzfyxq8gld0e~T1\">Stevie Wonder<\/a><\/strong>\/<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&#038;sql=11:jifyxqe5ldfe\">Paul McCartney<\/a><\/strong> duet <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ebony_and_ivory\">\u201cEbony and Ivory\u201d<\/a><\/strong> from 1982.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the ivory hellebore flower in the background of two of these photos? I&#8217;ve had that one for a couple of years, and it&#8217;s been in the same pot for at least a year. I was surprised and happy to see the magenta hellebore buds spring up this year. I&#8217;m not sure where the magenta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}