{"id":1417,"date":"2006-06-28T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:43:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:43:17","slug":"monarch-on-swamp-milkweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Monarch on swamp milkweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/IMG_0358.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/IMG_0358-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>&#8220;Just living is not enough,&#8221; said the butterfly. &#8220;One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8211; Hans Christian Andersen<\/span><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">An excellent list of key plants for the butterfly and hummingbird garden is available in PDF format from NJ Audubon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njaudubon.org\/Education\/BackyardHabitat\/Keyplants.html\">this link<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve found this list to be very helpful when planning my own garden and can attest to the popularity of the *Chocolate Cake* plants that are listed there as most attractive to butterflies and hummers.  What is especially nice about this list is that it annotates those species which are native.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just living is not enough,&#8221; said the butterfly. &#8220;One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.&#8221; &#8211; Hans Christian Andersen An excellent list of key plants for the butterfly and hummingbird garden is available in PDF format from NJ Audubon at this link. I&#8217;ve found this list to be very helpful when planning my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monarch on swamp milkweed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}