{"id":114,"date":"2013-03-17T09:47:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T09:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=114"},"modified":"2016-10-14T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:26:08","slug":"canada-blooms-day-3-the-common-bluet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/canada-blooms-day-3-the-common-bluet\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Blooms Day 3: The Common Bluet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115\" alt=\"bluets-480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bluets-480.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Day Three! We are so happy to be here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadablooms.com\/\">Canada Blooms<\/a>! Stop by!<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s talk about something blue, shall we? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwf-fcf.org\/en\/conservation\/wildlife\/featured-species\/flora\/common-bluet.html\">Bluet <\/a>flower! Bluets are native to southern Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (see below for other Canadian species) and can be planted in a meadow or semi-shade garden, at the edge of a path or to replace lawn. Bluets produce flowers on and off during the growing season, lighting up our woodland garden each spring <em>en masse<\/em>, and sporadically in the summer and fall, albeit in smaller numbers. Bees and other insects visit this plant for nectar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwf-fcf.org\/en\/conservation\/wildlife\/featured-species\/flora\/common-bluet.html\">Bluets <\/a>are naturally found in wet grassy meadows, thickets, and open woods. Give them moist, slightly acidic soil (although they can tolerate drier conditions), and either full sun or partial shade.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwf-fcf.org\/en\/conservation\/wildlife\/featured-species\/flora\/common-bluet.html\">bluet<\/a>, click here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">It&#8217;s Day Three! We are so happy to be here at Canada Blooms! Stop by! So let&#8217;s talk about something blue, shall we? The Bluet flower! Bluets are native to&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[54,51,55,45,310,22],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connect-with-nature","category-gardening","tag-bluet","tag-canada-blooms","tag-flowers","tag-gardening-2","tag-wild-about-gardening","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}