{"id":6040,"date":"2018-03-11T20:43:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T03:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2018-03-11T20:43:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T03:43:33","slug":"pleasant-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=6040","title":{"rendered":"Pleasant Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I purchased a Solandra maxima from a fellow at the Saturday Farmers\u2019 Market. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/Blooming20130406IMG_8799.jpg\" alt=\"Bloom\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">April 4, 2013 Bloom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It became a 12 foot long plant on a trellis. Numerous cuttings were taken to make more plants that are growing in a numerous locations in my gardens and gardens of friends.<\/p>\n<p>Last year after the annual bloom, the plant lost all of its leaves. I meant to remove it, but just couldn\u2019t find the time.<\/p>\n<p>This evening I was photographing the Brugmansia growing in front of the Solandra maxima. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Brugmansia_IMG_3401.jpg\" alt=\"Brugmansia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To my surprise I found that the Solandra maxima is leafing out.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Solandramaxima_IMG_3402.jpg\" alt=\"Solandra maxima\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t know why it was without leaves for nearly a year, but I am glad I didn\u2019t remove the plant. Maybe it will even bloom this year.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I purchased a Solandra maxima from a fellow at the Saturday Farmers\u2019 Market. April 4, 2013 Bloom It became a 12 foot long plant on a trellis. Numerous cuttings were taken to make more plants that are growing in a numerous locations in my gardens and gardens of friends. Last year after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=6040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pleasant Surprise<\/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-6040","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\/6040","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=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}