{"id":2981,"date":"2011-05-22T07:51:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2011-05-22T07:51:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:51:45","slug":"wildflowers-in-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"Wildflowers in the landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/S-coreopsis-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/S-coreopsis-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-coreopsis-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2982\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re starting a new landscape, and when you&#8217;ve got lots of area to fill, it makes sense to have some wildflower patches. Last year I flung a bunch of coreopsis seed in some rough areas where I was not mowing. The coreopsis didn&#8217;t bloom in its first year, but this year it&#8217;s making a good show.<\/p>\n<p>I had three rough areas, two of them fairly large, where the soil was poor and the ground had never been leveled enough to start grass. Early this spring, with Ken&#8217;s help, we tilled those areas, threw on organic fertilizer and compost, and planted wildflower seeds &#8212; very densely. Those areas now have lush stands of wildflowers more than a foot tall, but they&#8217;re not yet blooming. They&#8217;re going to make dramatic stands of wildflowers. I&#8217;ll have photos of that later in the summer when the blooming is going strong.<\/p>\n<p>Wildflower seeds can be in bulk, but the pound, from places like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidepride.com\/seed\/wildflower-seed\/\">OutsidePride.com<\/a>. I&#8217;ve found their seeds to be of very good quality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/coreopsis-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/coreopsis-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"coreopsis-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2983\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been eating broccoli from the garden for days now. This cabbage will soon be ready to go to the kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re starting a new landscape, and when you&#8217;ve got lots of area to fill, it makes sense to have some wildflower patches. Last year I flung a bunch of coreopsis seed in some rough areas where I was not mowing. The coreopsis didn&#8217;t bloom in its first year, but this year it&#8217;s making a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2981\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wildflowers in the landscape&#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":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","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\/2981","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=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}