{"id":1992,"date":"2009-06-29T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T02:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/29\/whirigig-daisy\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T19:45:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T02:45:45","slug":"whirigig-daisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/29\/whirigig-daisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Whirligig Daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/whirligig-daisy.jpg' title='whirligig-daisy.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/whirligig-daisy.thumbnail.jpg' alt='whirligig-daisy.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a><strong>Whirligig<\/strong> is the nickname given to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-tropicals.com\/Plants\/Asteraceae\/Osteospermum_fruticosum.html\">Trailing African Daisy<\/a> (osteospermum fruticosum). I snapped this picture last Friday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/summer-in-the-botanical-garden\/\">Botanic Garden<\/a>. Click on the image for the full-sized picture.<\/p>\n<p>The Whirligig is a member of the Aster family, closely related to other mums and daisies with a single-tier of petals. It propagates well from cuttings and does well in the Southwestern United States. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-tropicals.com\/Plants\/Asteraceae\/Osteospermum_fruticosum.html\">Desert Tropicals<\/a> website (Phoenix, AZ) this flower suffers in hotter climates like Phoenix, but is hardy when it comes to tolerating frost.<\/p>\n<p>We sure love going to the Gardens all year long, but especially in the spring and summer months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whirligig is the nickname given to this Trailing African Daisy (osteospermum fruticosum). I snapped this picture last Friday at the Botanic Garden. Click on the image&#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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}