{"id":1442,"date":"2006-06-03T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:43:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:43:48","slug":"bloom-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"Bloom sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/IMG_0247.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_0247-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/IMG_0244.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_0244-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/IMG_0245.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_0245-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/IMG_0248.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_0248-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/IMG_0246.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_0246-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I took this series of pics late yesterday afternoon.  This isn&#8217;t the sequence of bloom of just one peony flower, but five on the same plant, at different stages of bloom.  I&#8217;d been waiting for just the right day and yesterday was it &#8211; good thing too, because last night we had thunderstorms with wind and rain that did a number on the peonies.  Most of them are now just a heap of fallen petals.  I&#8217;m not very fond of this color peony in the garden, but think it looks just breathtaking in these pics with the blurred green background of the foliage for contrast.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Hal Borland calls peonies, &#8221; homely, and friendly, and generous beyond belief.  Give them half a chance and they are yours for a lifetime; yours in magnificent color and abundance.&#8221;  These have been blooming beside my screenhouse for at least ten years, with very little fuss on my part.  I don&#8217;t cut these single varities because they won&#8217;t last in the vase, but instead enjoy them as they are.  The few doubles I have I will cut and bring indoors to combine with roses in a bouquet.  Somewhat of a puzzle to me is one peony that produces lush foliage every year, but no buds.  I wonder if I have it planted too deeply?  Does anyone know? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this series of pics late yesterday afternoon. This isn&#8217;t the sequence of bloom of just one peony flower, but five on the same plant, at different stages of bloom. I&#8217;d been waiting for just the right day and yesterday was it &#8211; good thing too, because last night we had thunderstorms with wind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bloom sequence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4284,"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\/1442"}],"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=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}