{"id":447,"date":"2007-06-28T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/whirligig\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:45:55","slug":"whirligig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/whirligig\/","title":{"rendered":"Whirligig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/african-daisy.jpg\" title=\"african-daisy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image446\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/african-daisy.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"african-daisy.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>Whirligig 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 week 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whirligig is the nickname given to this Trailing African Daisy (osteospermum fruticosum). I snapped this picture last week 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":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","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\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}