{"id":2345,"date":"2008-04-06T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T00:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2016-11-27T05:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T05:00:56","slug":"spring-fling-mr-peeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/spring-fling-mr-peeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Peeps Does Spring Fling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I returned from my recent visit to Las Vegas with a newfound love for cactus and succulents. I couldn&#8217;t resist bringing home a golden barrel cactus but the only one I could find that would fit into my carry-on luggage was this novelty plant from the discount plant table at Lowe&#8217;s. Although I originally intended to remove the plastic eyes that had been glued on to create &#8220;My Peeps, Cactus Buddies&#8221;, many people wanted to see a photo of it. So I decided to make Mr. Peeps (as I&#8217;ve named him) my Spring Fling mascot.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Peeps loved the first stop on our Spring Fling tour: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildflower.org\/\">the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center<\/a>. There he found all sorts of cactus and succulent cousins to hang out with. It also gave him a glimmer of hope that he might be able to survive in Austin&#8217;s humidity.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/MrPeeps3.jpg\" alt=\"golden barrel cactus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, when the Garden Bloggers visited the private gardens of James David and Gary Peese I was forced to leave Mr. Peeps in the car. I told him that the tropical climate of the garden wouldn&#8217;t suit him but the truth is that these gardens are just too upmarket for a lowly plant from the Lowe&#8217;s discount table.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/JamesDavid1.jpg\" alt=\"James David Garden\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the cocktail hour given by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penick.net\/digging\/\">Pam\/Digging<\/a>, Mr. Peeps may have had a few too many Mexican martinis. The next thing I knew he was cavorting in Pam&#8217;s stock tank pond swooning to the mariachi band.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/MrPeeps2.jpg\" alt=\"golden barrel cactus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know some of you other Garden Bloggers made friends with Mr. Peeps. If you decide to post any photos of him during Spring Fling, leave me a comment and a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/MrPeeps1.jpg\" alt=\"golden barrel cactus\" \/><br \/><i>Mr. Peeps enjoying the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[55,199,201,217,260,317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345"}],"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=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5019,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}