{"id":2739,"date":"2011-03-20T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2011-03-20T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T17:22:44","slug":"whats-blooming-and-budding-at-the-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s blooming and budding at the abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Daffodils<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spring officially begins later today. Here in the Blue Ridge foothills, we&#8217;re still weeks away from the full riot of High Spring. But the spring blooming and budding have started, and we&#8217;re gathering momentum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Blooms on a young peach tree<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Wild redbud at the edge of the woods<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Blackberry shoots on the edge of the rabbit patch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-5\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Day lily shoots by the hundreds<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-6\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I believe this is sedum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-7\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>New growth on the fence roses<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-8\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Pansies<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-9\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Heather &#8212; non-native, experimental<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-10\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Pear trees by the neighbor&#8217;s pasture<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bloomings-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bloomings-11\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Pear blossoms<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daffodils Spring officially begins later today. Here in the Blue Ridge foothills, we&#8217;re still weeks away from the full riot of High Spring. But the spring blooming and budding have started, and we&#8217;re gathering momentum. Blooms on a young peach tree Wild redbud at the edge of the woods Blackberry shoots on the edge of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#039;s blooming and budding at the abbey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","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=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}