{"id":13564,"date":"2018-08-10T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=13564"},"modified":"2018-08-10T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T00:03:22","slug":"you-cant-have-too-much-abelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=13564","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t have too much abelia"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"937\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-1-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-1-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-1-1024x800.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies would agree: You can&#8217;t have too much abelia.<\/p>\n<p>Abelia shrubs bloom almost all summer long. There are thousands of little dime-size blooms. Abelia is an old-fashioned and out-of-style relative of honeysuckle, though it&#8217;s not as fragrant, and (thank goodness) it doesn&#8217;t climb. <\/p>\n<p>This abelia bush, now nine years old, stands in front of the abbey&#8217;s bay window.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/abelia-2-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearby, under the front porch, the hostas are in full bloom. &#x2b07;\ufe0e<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/H-hosta-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/H-hosta-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/H-hosta-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/H-hosta-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/H-hosta-1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/H-hosta-1-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#x2b06;\ufe0e <em>Hosta blooms. <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/hosta-1.jpg\">Click here for high-resolution version<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies would agree: You can&#8217;t have too much abelia. Abelia shrubs bloom almost all summer long. There are thousands of little dime-size blooms. Abelia is an old-fashioned and out-of-style relative of honeysuckle, though it&#8217;s not as fragrant, and (thank goodness) it doesn&#8217;t climb. This abelia bush, now nine years old, stands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=13564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You can&#8217;t have too much abelia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13574,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions\/13574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}