{"id":5903,"date":"2018-02-01T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:55:25","slug":"sweet-essence-of-the-magnolia-and-brugmansia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=5903","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Essence of the Magnolia and Brugmansia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small Magnolia in the back garden is in bloom. Last evening I noticed the fragrance of the Magnolia was combining nicely with the delicious fragrance of the Brugmansia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/MagnoliaBloom1.jpg\" alt=\"Magnolia Bloom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/MagnoliaBloomWithBee1.jpg\n\" alt=\"Magnolia Bloom with Bee\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/MagnoliaBudAndPod1.jpg\n\" alt=\"Magnolia Bud with Pod\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tall tilting tree is actually a Brugmansia. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/BrugmansiaDeck.jpg\" alt=\"Brugmansia Tilt\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Wisteria covering the deck was quite heavy last year, casting shade. So the Brug is growing toward the light. When the flower cycle ends, I will cut it back. <\/p>\n<p>I grew the Brug from seed several years ago. I have taken cuttings and harvested seed pods to make more plants. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/BrugPod.jpg\" alt=\"Brug Pod\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">A recently harvested Brugmansia seed pod.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I remove Brugmansia and Datura pods to prevent anyone from snagging them to use inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p>The Brug was grown from seed purchased from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedman.com\/datura.htm\" >Seedman.com<\/a>. The site has seed for a variety of plants and a great place to find seed for unusual plants.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small Magnolia in the back garden is in bloom. Last evening I noticed the fragrance of the Magnolia was combining nicely with the delicious fragrance of the Brugmansia. The tall tilting tree is actually a Brugmansia. The Wisteria covering the deck was quite heavy last year, casting shade. So the Brug is growing toward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=5903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweet Essence of the Magnolia and Brugmansia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","category-nature","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}