{"id":2689,"date":"2014-07-19T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2014-07-17T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:35:07","slug":"jewels-of-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"Jewels of the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

The list of gems in my garden are numerous today.<\/p>\n

Swamp Hibiscus, also more elegantly called the Texas Star:\"DSCN4113\"<\/a>Mexican Flame Vine:\"DSCN4093\"<\/a>Wild petunia (Ruellia humilis<\/em>) growing everywhere there is little shade and moisture\u00a0 in my yard. What a pretty little native. Just love those free native flowers, showing up all by themselves.\"DSCN3973\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Caged sunshine – a jewel none-the-less. The top of the garden is open, but we won’t tell it. \ud83d\ude42 Soon the songbirds will find it and pilfer all the fat sunflower seeds from it’s heart.\"DSCN4105e\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A baby praying mantis. A definite treasure here in the veggie patch, diligently keeping parasitic bugs under control.\"DSCN4101e\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An Esparenza bloom (Yellow Bells). A true and trusted, drought tolerant mass bloomer, no matter how blistering it gets….all summer long.<\/p>\n

\"DSCN4094e\"<\/a>Tropical water lilies. \"DSCN4115e\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A tufted titmouse and cardinal sharing a convenient perch while enjoying the cool, gentle\u00a0 splashes from the sprinkler. \"DSCN4119\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The jewels of the pond:\"DSCN3935\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella<\/i>) , another lovely little native blooming all willy nilly on my land. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Another cardinal (perhaps the same one) having found a new perch in the back yard:\"DSCN4131e\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A mockingbird, without whom the garden would be a silent place, lacking its crystal clear cheerful song all year long.<\/p>\n

\"DSCN4133\"<\/a>Tropical night bloomers. What a color!\"DSCN3952\"<\/a>The jewels of the sky, a female hummingbird.\"DSCN4159e\"<\/a>A majestic stand of towering spires of Canna in the bog.\"DSCN3957\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And the old garden mainstay –\u00a0 Echinacea, blooming a cheerful pink:\"DSCN3958e\"<\/a>There is so much more. We are forecast to get some more rain today, and my trees and plants are probably thrilled.<\/p>\n

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The list of gems in my garden are numerous today. Swamp Hibiscus, also more elegantly called the Texas Star:Mexican Flame Vine:Wild petunia (Ruellia humilis) growing everywhere there is little shade and moisture\u00a0 in my yard. What a pretty little native. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2712,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}