{"id":2363,"date":"2008-05-19T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:58:53","slug":"a-rose-even-i-cant-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/uncategorized\/a-rose-even-i-cant-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rose Even I Can&#8217;t Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dee @ <a href=\"http:\/\/reddirtramblings.com\/\">Red Dirt Ramblings<\/a> recently sent me the perfect rose: it doesn&#8217;t require any water or fertilizer. I don&#8217;t have to worry about black spot or mildew or the flowers balling in Austin&#8217;s humid heat. I never have to contemplate spraying poison on it, or be wake up one morning to find that it has been eaten by caterpillars, beetles, or covered with aphids. I don&#8217;t have to dread rose dieback.<\/p>\n<p>This perfect rose is a <a href=\"http:\/\/roserockmuseum.com\/\">barite rose<\/a> and it is the state rock of Oklahoma. Dee wrote how moved she was by <a href=\"http:\/\/reddirtramblings.com\/?p=302\">Tom Spencer&#8217;s talk on gathered stones<\/a> during Spring Fling. Our gardens become reliquaries for those objects (stones, shells, bones, and figures) which have personal meaning to us.<\/p>\n<p>My little pot of everblooming barite roses will always remind me of meeting Dee and all the other wonderful garden bloggers who came to the first Spring Fling.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/rose_Barite1.jpg\" alt=\"Barite rose\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/rose_Barite2.jpg\" alt=\"Barite rose\" \/><br \/><i>Barite rose on a bed of recycled glass mulch.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[62,345,452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363"}],"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=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5584,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}