{"id":1965,"date":"2005-04-13T23:12:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T04:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2017-07-17T18:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T23:44:28","slug":"hippeastrum-x-johnsonii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/hippeastrum-x-johnsonii\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippeastrum x johnsonii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I popped over to <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenspot.typepad.com\/\">Garden Spot<\/a> which hadn&#8217;t been updated in almost a year to find a new post on St. Joseph&#8217;s lily. And there was the answer to the mystery bulb which is blooming in my garden these last two weeks. I figured it was some kind of amaryllis. I&#8217;d found two very small bulbs when rescuing oxblood lilies from a construction site on South 1st street several years ago. They began blooming for the first time this year on March 31st.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img width=\"320px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/HippeastrumJohnsonii1.jpg\" alt=\"photo: amaryllis\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Garden Bulbs for the South&#8221;, Scott Ogden writes, &#8220;After nearly two hundred years, H. x johnsonii remains the most prolific and hardy garden amaryllis. Its bold, crimson trumpets rise in clusters of four to six atop two-foot stems. In most of the South, these blossoms appear in early April.&#8221; (St. Joseph&#8217;s day is March 19th.)<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"320px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/HippeastrumJohnsonii2.jpg\" alt=\"St Josephs Lily\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rob Proctor, in &#8220;Naturalizing Bulbs&#8221; adds, &#8220;&#8230;(it&#8217;s) a southern specialty noted for its dependable nature and outstanding long red trumpets with central white stripes on the petals. It can take some frost and damp winter soil and is the most durable amaryllis throughout the South.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can vouch for the frost-hardiness. The bulbs lost their leaves for the first time after last Christmas Eve&#8217;s hard freeze. I was worried but then they started growing more vigorously than ever and sent up their first flower scapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"320px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/HippeastrumJohnsonii3.jpg\" alt=\"photo: St Josephs Lily\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5275,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/5275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}