{"id":635,"date":"2012-03-01T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T22:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conniesmithson.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2012-03-01T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T22:57:17","slug":"irises-are-showing-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/03\/01\/irises-are-showing-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Irises are showing green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Irises are poking their head out of the earth I noticed today. Must say, in this zone they are a bit early, but then with the weather the way it is, nothing is surprising me at all. I love my Irises. I have a full &#8220;fence&#8221; of them and always have extra&#8217;s to share with friends and family. Sometimes I can even barter with them. I love to barter. It&#8217;s good for both parties involved.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw the\u00a0 Irises, naturally I had to check out all of the gardens for signs of new greenery. I see that my Valerian is starting to pop it&#8217;s heads out a wee bit, and even my chives are showing theirs, if one looks close enough. I couldn&#8217;t cut my sage down last fall, so as soon as it gets a bit warmer outside, I&#8217;ll cut it way back and get all the dead branches and leaves off of it. The sage grows really fast for me, so I&#8217;m not too worried if I cut it down a great deal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still keeping an eye our for the dandiflowers&#8230;okay, dandelions as everyone else calls them. Two years ago, on Jan. 29th, in the middle of a snow storm my youngest son brought me in a dandiflower, after he shook the snow off of it. I couldn&#8217;t believe it. How strange is that. I of course pressed it in one of my heavy herbal books, and marked the page with a note that it was from my son for my birthday. What an awesome birthday present in January!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Irises are poking their head out of the earth I noticed today. Must say, in this zone they are a bit early, but then with the weather the way it is, nothing is surprising me at all. I love my Irises. I have a full &#8220;fence&#8221; of them and always have extra&#8217;s to share &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/03\/01\/irises-are-showing-green\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irises are showing green&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[257,298,388,511,797,958],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-dandelions","tag-early-show-of-plants","tag-gardem","tag-irises","tag-sage","tag-valerian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}