{"id":8945,"date":"2023-02-13T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2023-02-13T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:18:49","slug":"oxalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8945","title":{"rendered":"Oxalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxalis is considered an invasive plant by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cal-ipc.org\/plants\/profile\/oxalis-pes-caprae-profile\/\" >California Invasive Plant Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of our garden is covered with the plants. Not planned, just happened.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Oxalis_IMG_0096.jpg\" alt=\"Oxalis\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I cut a few to dry and use in a piece. The flowers are lovely with a sweet, subtle fragrance. <\/p>\n<p>I had a few buds left. Popped them in a small vase of water. Three days later they opened and are still opening during the day and closing at night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Oxalis_IMG_0094.jpg\" alt=\"Oxalis\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plants also have interesting foliage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Oxalis_IMG_0100.jpg\" alt=\"Oxalis\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the flowers are dried in my microwave flower press they become a golden color. When dried in my flower press between layers of blotter paper and cardboard they retain most of their yellow color.<\/p>\n<p>The leaf is nearly dry; the flower completely dry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Oxalis_IMG_0110.jpg\" alt=\"Drying Oxalis\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxalis is considered an invasive plant by the California Invasive Plant Council. A portion of our garden is covered with the plants. Not planned, just happened. I cut a few to dry and use in a piece. The flowers are lovely with a sweet, subtle fragrance. I had a few buds left. Popped them in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=8945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oxalis<\/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-8945","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\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}