{"id":2251,"date":"2007-05-17T17:38:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T22:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2017-07-19T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:40:38","slug":"crinums-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/crinums-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Crinums Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know for sure whether the crinums growing in the meadow are <i>Crinum bulbispermum<\/i> or not because I rescued them from a construction site several years ago. They have glaucous (grey-green) leaves and the flowers are not as showy as the other crinum I have (which I think is Crinum gowenii). C. bulbispermum is said to bloom earlier than other crinums and these began blooming on April 16th after a wet spring. (Last year, one bloomed in late June&#8211;so go figure.)<\/p>\n<p>The first had medium-sized flowers with a pale pink stripe.<br \/>\n<img width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/CrinumBulbispermum1.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens: Crinum bulbispermum\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second one to flower was pure white. The third one had a shorter stalk and smaller flowers. But the stripes were dark pink.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/CrinumBulbispermum2.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens: Crinum bulbispermum\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the seeds form, the stalk becomes top heavy causing it to fall over a distance away from the mother plant. The seed pods are larger than a golf ball but not quite as large as a tennis ball.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/CrinumBulbispermum3.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens: Crinum bulbispermum\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the seed pods burst open, the seeds (called stones) fall to the ground, and if it is damp begin sprouting. This huge collection of seeds was obtained from just two stalks. Notice the ones sprouting?<\/p>\n<p>Crinums take up a lot of space so I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to do with all these seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/CrinumBulbispermum4.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens: Crinum bulbispermum\" \/><\/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\/2251"}],"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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5461,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/5461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}