{"id":157,"date":"2011-09-21T09:56:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=157"},"modified":"2011-09-21T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:11:50","slug":"garden-phlox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"garden phlox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/firstphlox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-160\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"firstphlox\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/firstphlox-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/firstphlox-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/firstphlox.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In mid-July when I took the above photo, I admit that I did not yet know what type of flower it was. I liked it&#8217;s small, pointy buds and could not wait to see how they would unfold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phloxbloom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-161\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"phloxbloom\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phloxbloom-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phloxbloom-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phloxbloom.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phloxopen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-162\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"phloxopen\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phloxopen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phloxopen-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/phloxopen.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>They turned out to be phlox. There are many varieties, some low to the ground, but these which stand quite tall, the tallest up to my waist, have become one of my favorite plants around here. They attract <a title=\"Just out the door\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=123\">butterflies and hummingbirds<\/a>, have <a title=\"happiness\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=107\">brightened my days<\/a>, and last a really long time. The best part though was that they surprised me. When the petals finally fell to the ground and I thought they were gone until next summer, this happened:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/darkpinkphlox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-158\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"darkpinkphlox\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/darkpinkphlox-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/darkpinkphlox-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/darkpinkphlox.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lightpinkphlox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-159\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"lightpinkphlox\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lightpinkphlox-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lightpinkphlox-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lightpinkphlox.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They bloomed again! There are still a few hanging on now in mid-September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Phlox paniculata)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-July when I took the above photo, I admit that I did not yet know what type of flower it was. I liked it&#8217;s small, pointy buds and could not wait to see how they would unfold. They turned &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}