{"id":6016,"date":"2018-03-10T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2018-03-10T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T00:31:24","slug":"new-plants-for-succulent-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=6016","title":{"rendered":"New Plants for Succulent Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at the little iron bunny in one of my succulent gardens. It seems to disappear into the soil. Had thought that laying a bed of flat grey rocks for it to sit on. Today when I was visiting the neighborhood nursery, I saw this plant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Aloe_IMG_3334.jpg\" alt=\"Aloe\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have a rule when purchasing plants. They must be planted the day they are purchased. <\/p>\n<p>Today was unusual because it was and still is raining. Rainfall on the CA Central Coast is a bit of an odd occurrence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Aloe_IMG_3337.jpg\" alt=\"Aloe\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I slipped on my seldom used raincoat, pulled the plants out of the pot\u2026<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/Aloe_IMG_3339.jpg\" alt=\"Aloe\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Eight aloe and a cactus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2026and popped them in the garden.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/Aloes_IMG_3341.jpg\" alt=\"Aloe\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Placed one directly in front of the little iron bunny with two more plants in an imperfect triangle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/Aloes_IMG_3342.jpg\" alt=\"Aloe\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Three aloe in a previously open space in the garden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/Aloes_IMG_3343.jpg\" alt=\"Aloe\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Two small aloe juxtaposed with some plantlets in the making, all near the memorial bunny.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/Cactus_IMG_3345.jpg\" alt=\"Cactus\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The volunteer cactus could use a dusting.<br \/>\nTomorrow when it is no longer raining, I will remove the soil from its spines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at the little iron bunny in one of my succulent gardens. It seems to disappear into the soil. Had thought that laying a bed of flat grey rocks for it to sit on. Today when I was visiting the neighborhood nursery, I saw this plant. I have a rule when purchasing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=6016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Plants for Succulent Gardens<\/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-6016","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\/6016","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=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6034,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions\/6034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}