{"id":1035,"date":"2012-08-08T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:39:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:39:54","slug":"this-week-in-our-garden-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/this-week-in-our-garden-13\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1117\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pearly-everlasting-sarah-640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1117\" alt=\"pearly everlasting\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pearly-everlasting-sarah-640px-640x426.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pearly-everlasting-sarah-640px-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pearly-everlasting-sarah-640px.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pearly everlasting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"image-380765177\"><\/div>\n<p>[PHOTOS: CWF]<\/p>\n<p>As summer moves on, many flowers continue to bloom such as echinacea, brown eyed Susans, our wild onions and coreopsis. Pearly everlasting is still going strong, too. Above is a newer photo of the flowers that shows more clearly their arrangement of petals.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the pollen parade &#8211; giving our bees, butterflies and other insects much needed food &#8211; are :<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-380765178\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"great blue lobelia\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/cwf-garden---august-9-2012\/great-blue-lobelia-lobelia-siphilitica-300px.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Great blue lobelia (<em>Lobelia siphilitica<\/em>), a robust plant that can grow from one to two feet or more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-380765179\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blue-stemmed goldenrod\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/cwf-garden---august-9-2012\/blue-stemmed-goldenrod-solidago-caesia-300px.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Blue-stemmed goldenrod (<em>Solidago caesia<\/em>) is not a showy plant by any means, but is one of the goldenrods that doesn&#8217;t spread very quickly and can quietly brighten up a partially-shaded corner.<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-380765180\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"arrowwood viburnum berries\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/cwf-garden---august-9-2012\/arrowwood-viburnum-viburnum-dentatum-300px.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>More shrubs are ripening fruit, like the arrowwood viburnum (<em>Viburnum dentatum<\/em>) with its clusters of dark blue berries.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for more information on Canada&#8217;s native plants or how you can make a difference in the life of a local pollinator, bird or other wild neighbour, visit <a title=\"Wild About Gardening\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cwf-fcf.org\/en\/discover-wildlife\/gardening\/\" target=\"_blank\">WildAboutGardening.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">&nbsp; [PHOTOS: CWF] As summer moves on, many flowers continue to bloom such as echinacea, brown eyed Susans, our wild onions and coreopsis. Pearly everlasting is still going strong, too.&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,641],"tags":[397,418,444,352,55,45,443,41,430,310],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connect-with-nature","category-gardening","tag-arrowwood-viburnum","tag-berry","tag-blue-stemmed-goldenrod","tag-cwf-demonstration-garden","tag-flowers","tag-gardening-2","tag-great-blue-lobelia","tag-habitat","tag-pearly-everlasting","tag-wild-about-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}