{"id":15657,"date":"2022-05-10T20:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15657"},"modified":"2022-05-28T20:40:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T19:40:32","slug":"daily_2660_-_the_cowslips_are_slow_to_spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/05\/10\/daily_2660_-_the_cowslips_are_slow_to_spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2660 &#8211; the cowslips are slow to spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2660_cowslips_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nCowslips are one of my favourites in the garden. They&#8217;re happily perennial here and turn up reliably year after year. One year I moved a bunch of them to get them more concentrated &#8211; instead of one here and one there, I now have a small cowslip meadow. In fact I even have three cowslip meadows, but only one of them is right next to the deck and nicely visible from the house.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting for them to spread by seed. I wait with mowing the grass in that area until they&#8217;re all done flowering. But it doesn&#8217;t seem to be happening much. The clumps are slowly getting bigger, though.<\/p>\n<p>In most clumps, some of the plants have much shorter stems. I wonder if it&#8217;s the babies of the clump, old enough to flower but not yet old enough to grow to full size.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2660_cowslips_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cowslips are one of my favourites in the garden. They&#8217;re happily perennial here and turn up reliably year after year. One year I moved a bunch of them to get them more concentrated &#8211; instead of one here and one there, I now have a small cowslip meadow. In fact I even have three cowslip [&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-15657","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\/15657","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=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15659,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions\/15659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}