{"id":849,"date":"2009-06-06T22:26:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:07:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:07:57","slug":"may_flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/06\/06\/may_flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"May flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMay is the prime time for our garden, the season when it is at its most impressive and beautiful, because of our two huge cherry trees. They&rsquo;re taller than the house and flank it on two sides.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Flowers_cherry.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen the cherry trees were joined by a large bird cherry bush (<i>prunus padus<\/i>, h\u00e4gg, toomingas) and a plum tree, half the garden was covered in white blooms.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Flowers_cherry_white.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut we also had lots of primroses, both the ordinary wild yellow ones and some lusher-looking red ones (possibly planted) and orange hybrids<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Flowers_primula.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nand daisies, here camouflaged between fallen cherry blossoms<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Flowers_daisy.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nand periwinkles<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Flowers_periwinkle.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nand various weeds which I&rsquo;m sure would have been removed long ago in a stricter garden, but which I found quite decorative.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Flowers_pennycress.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Flowers_yellow_weeds.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy the end of the month, the lilacs were blooming, too.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Flowers_lilacs.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is the prime time for our garden, the season when it is at its most impressive and beautiful, because of our two huge cherry trees. They&rsquo;re taller than the house and flank it on two sides. When the cherry trees were joined by a large bird cherry bush (prunus padus, h\u00e4gg, toomingas) and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[198,84,66,199],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house_and_garden","tag-flowers","tag-garden","tag-photo","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}