{"id":329,"date":"2012-02-18T13:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2022-07-29T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T22:01:10","slug":"plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2012\/plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first plant for the front yard has been purchased!&nbsp; It is Leucadendron &#8216;Jester&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I came across this plant just before Christmas when I was visiting a friend in Big Sur.&nbsp; The morning was magical&#8230;bright, the air crisp and clear, and heavy dew drops sparkled everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Then I saw it.<\/p>\n<p>This plant seemed to be the very Source of Light for this glorious morning.&nbsp; I had my picture taken next to it so I could recall its size and shape because I did not know the name at the time and would research it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2012\/plants\/img_5902\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-330\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-330 alignnone\" title=\"IMG_5902\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_5902-400x341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_5902-400x341.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_5902-175x149.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_5902-1024x874.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_5902.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2012\/plants\/img_5903\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-331\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-331\" title=\"IMG_5903\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_5903-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_5903-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_5903-175x131.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_5903-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mine is a young, small but promising 5 gallon plant.&nbsp; Where ever this plant is in a garden would be a position of prominence, because Jester makes it so.&nbsp; I will plant this on the west side of the yard, nearer the sidewalk, between the patio and split rail fence.<\/p>\n<p>But first I&#8217;m off to purchase more plants!&nbsp; Photos to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first plant for the front yard has been purchased!&nbsp; It is Leucadendron &#8216;Jester&#8217;. I came across this plant just before Christmas when I was visiting a friend in Big Sur.&nbsp; The morning was magical&#8230;bright, the air crisp and clear, and heavy dew drops sparkled everywhere. Then I saw it. This plant seemed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-yard-patio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}