{"id":415,"date":"2013-07-08T19:07:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T19:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=415"},"modified":"2016-10-14T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:43:06","slug":"photo-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/photo-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Photo of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/common-milkweed-640px1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-417\" alt=\"common milkweed - 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/common-milkweed-640px1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[PHOTO CREDIT: CANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION&#8217;S DEMONSTRATION GARDEN]<\/p>\n<p>Monarch butterflies benefit from our many native milkweeds but tend to prefer this one, <em>Asclepias syriaca, <\/em>also known as common milkweed. The flowers\u00a0have a beautiful smell and\u00a0provide food for beneficial pollinators. Milkweeds are considered a &#8216;larval food plant&#8217; as\u00a0monarch butterflies\u00a0lay their eggs on milkweed leaves, providing a critical food source for\u00a0their caterpillars. Sometimes people are\u00a0concerned about it spreading too far. If this is the case with you, simply snip off the flower heads after they&#8217;ve been pollinated (they will look all wilted, unlike this flower head which is full and rounded).<\/p>\n<p>To discover more of Canada&#8217;s native plants, visit our <a title=\"CWF's Native Plant Encyclopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/discover-wildlife\/resources\/encyclopedias\/native-plant-encyclopedia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Native Plant Encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">[PHOTO CREDIT: CANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION&#8217;S DEMONSTRATION GARDEN] Monarch butterflies benefit from our many native milkweeds but tend to prefer this one, Asclepias syriaca, also known as common milkweed. The flowers\u00a0have&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":[55,45,192,83,310],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connect-with-nature","category-gardening","tag-flowers","tag-gardening-2","tag-milkweed","tag-monarch-butterfly","tag-wild-about-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}