{"id":260,"date":"2014-08-02T00:40:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T04:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/?p=260"},"modified":"2015-10-14T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T03:00:13","slug":"2014-garden-flowers-annuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"2014 Garden Flowers &#8211; Annuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2014 was the first year we threw down some annual wildflowers along the inner sides of the east and west beds, along the rather harsh concrete border.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0007_2014_Flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-262 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0007_2014_Flowers-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0007_2014_Flowers\" width=\"660\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0007_2014_Flowers-1024x678.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0007_2014_Flowers-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0007_2014_Flowers.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers on the eastern bed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more-->They definitely softened it up over the season, drooping over it and covering it from sight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0008_2014_Flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-261 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0008_2014_Flowers-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0008_2014_Flowers\" width=\"660\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0008_2014_Flowers-1024x664.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0008_2014_Flowers-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0008_2014_Flowers.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They also attracted a ton of bees and other pollinators to the garden, which really enhanced the little ecosystem we have going.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0108_2014_Flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-267 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0108_2014_Flowers-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_0108_2014_Flowers\" width=\"660\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0108_2014_Flowers-1024x732.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0108_2014_Flowers-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0108_2014_Flowers.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers on the western bed, midseason<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265\" style=\"width: 816px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0076_2014_Flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-265 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0076_2014_Flowers.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_0076_2014_Flowers\" width=\"816\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0076_2014_Flowers.jpg 816w, http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0076_2014_Flowers-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflower in bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marigolds have always struck me as tacky. But they are supposed to help keep unwanted bugs away from the plants. We also have tons of mosquitoes around, and some West Nile Virus to boot, so they never hurt. Maybe in the future I&#8217;ll tuck them a bit more out of sight. Many of them just appeared as volunteers, but I&#8217;d like them to be a little less&#8230; featured. At this point, we&#8217;ve found quite a few less flowers that we&#8217;d happily have in the mix.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0217_2014_Flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-281\" src=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0217_2014_Flowers-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Marigolds\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0217_2014_Flowers-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0217_2014_Flowers-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/MG_0217_2014_Flowers.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marigolds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 was the first year we threw down some annual wildflowers along the inner sides of the east and west beds, along the rather harsh concrete border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,10],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-74","category-flowers","tag-garden-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fivefurrow.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}