{"id":2292,"date":"2010-09-09T14:35:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2017-07-17T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T15:43:04","slug":"oxblood-lily-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/oxblood-lily-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxblood Lily Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Dateline: September 14, 2007 -->One day each year the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plants\/rhodophiala.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">oxblood lilies<\/a> peak. Today is that day. A drenching from Tropical Storm Hermine last Tuesday <!-- good soaking rain last  Sunday -->brought forth the main display. I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m even inside writing this up. I could spend the whole day lying on my stomach in the grass reveling in the beauty.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/RhodophialaBifida20070914b.jpg\" alt=\"Rhodophiala bifida\" width=\"320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I say this every year, but&#8230;for Austinites, oxblood lilies are like daffodils for northern gardeners. They presage the beginning of the southerners&#8217; gardening year. They trumpet the triumph of the garden over our worst and most dreaded season, summer. They are of similar size and form to daffodils. (I suppose technically they&#8217;re more lily-shaped, thus the name. No they are not related to lilies). They naturalize in lovely drifts. The only thing oxblood lilies lack is a scent.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/RhodophialaBifida7.jpg\" alt=\"Rhodophiala bifida\" width=\"320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, I planned my garden house to overlook the oxblood lilies in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=708\" rel=\"bookmark\">stump garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/RhodophialaBifida20070914c.jpg\" alt=\"Rhodophiala bifida\" width=\"320px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/RhodophialaBifida20070914a.jpg\" alt=\"Rhodophiala bifida\" width=\"320px\" \/><\/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\/2292"}],"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=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5159,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/5159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}