{"id":1800,"date":"2009-03-31T18:52:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T01:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/dutch-hyacinth\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T07:17:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T14:17:21","slug":"dutch-hyacinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/dutch-hyacinth\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Hyacinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hyacinth.jpg' title='Dutch Hyacinth'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hyacinth.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Dutch Hyacinth' class='right' \/><\/a>Over the weekend, I brought this Dutch Hyacinth home from the flower concession in the supermarket. These come and go rather quickly, but they are so beautiful and fragrant when they bloom. <\/p>\n<p>Today, you can not walk into the kitchen, where these are in bloom, without noticing the beautiful fragrance, let alone the pretty pink blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>WikiPedia has this to say about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyacinth_(flower)\">Dutch Hyacinth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Dutch, or Common Hyacinth of house and garden culture (H. orientalis, native to southwest Asia) was so popular in the 18th century that over 2,000 cultivars were cultivated in the Netherlands, its chief commercial producer. This hyacinth has a single dense spike of fragrant flowers in shades of red, blue, white, orange, pink, violet, or yellow. A form of the common hyacinth is the less hardy and smaller blue- or white-petalled Roman hyacinth of florists. These flowers should have indirect sunlight and are to be moderately watered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I brought this Dutch Hyacinth home from the flower concession in the supermarket. These come and go rather quickly, but they are so&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}