{"id":7400,"date":"2016-05-23T18:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2017-06-18T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T20:59:04","slug":"daily_565_-_bleeding_hearts_and_other_plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/daily_565_-_bleeding_hearts_and_other_plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 565 – bleeding hearts and other plants"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI so love seeing my plants grow, and I am so pleased with the two perennial beds that I have planted. Must make more.<\/p>\n

The seasonal growth is the most immediately pleasing part: seeing the tiny green shoots emerge and then grow taller and stronger, and unfold into leaves.<\/p>\n

But there is also the slower growth from one season to the next. The Epimedium<\/i> was rather disappointing in its first year, more robust in the second, and quite eye-catching in this, its third year. The hostas I planted last summer look to produce 5 or 6 shoots; the ones from 2014 are already twice the size.<\/p>\n

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Hostas planted last year<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hostas planted two years ago<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Some plants waste no time. Galium odoratum<\/i> is already doing its job as ground cover even though I only planted it last year. And Carex morrowii<\/i> is spreading like there’s no tomorrow – I’m already yanking out daughter plants where they are spreading too far from the mother and invading areas where I want other things to grow.<\/p>\n

The only plants that currently look hopeless are the Lamiums<\/i>. Some didn’t come up at all so I suspect they are simply dead; others look puny and near death. But who knows – they might just need a bit of time like the Epimediums.<\/p>\n

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I so love seeing my plants grow, and I am so pleased with the two perennial beds that I have planted. Must make more. The seasonal growth is the most immediately pleasing part: seeing the tiny green shoots emerge and then grow taller and stronger, and unfold into leaves. But there is also the slower […]<\/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-7400","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\/7400","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=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8805,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions\/8805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}