{"id":13220,"date":"2020-07-30T17:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13220"},"modified":"2020-07-31T17:16:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:16:53","slug":"daily_2024_-_hydrangea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/07\/30\/daily_2024_-_hydrangea\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2024 &#8211; hydrangea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2024_hortensia_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/05\/17\/daily_1953_-_designing_the_shrubbery\"\/>The bushes<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/06\/07\/daily_1971_-_digging\/\">I planted<\/a> behind the house are coming along very nicely. They mostly don&#8217;t look very impressive, but all seem to be growing, which is all I can ask for in the first season.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2024_hortensia_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe hydrangeas, which I&#8217;ve seen described in various places as &#8220;extremely thirsty&#8221; and prone to dying because of lack of water, have behaved like any ordinary newly planted bush and not been particularly thirsty at all. One of the spireas has been much fussier and shown signs of wilting several times. Maybe all the talk about thirsty hydrangeas comes from people growing them indoors.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2024_hortensia_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nBoth hydrangeas are currently flowering with blue flowers. I wonder if that&#8217;s because the soil here is slightly acidic after all, or if it&#8217;s due to the soil they came with. I guess next summer will show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bushes that I planted behind the house are coming along very nicely. They mostly don&#8217;t look very impressive, but all seem to be growing, which is all I can ask for in the first season. The hydrangeas, which I&#8217;ve seen described in various places as &#8220;extremely thirsty&#8221; and prone to dying because of lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13226,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions\/13226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}