{"id":2383,"date":"2008-07-24T20:44:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T01:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2017-07-20T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T19:38:39","slug":"abelmoschus-esculentus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/abelmoschus-esculentus\/","title":{"rendered":"Abelmoschus esculentus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/apparently-you-can-be-too-pretentious.html\">gardeners need to be a little pretentious.<\/a> Juliet might have thought that &#8220;that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet&#8221; but she was blinded by love. Let&#8217;s be honest. Wouldn&#8217;t you pass the lovely <i>Abelmoschus esculentus<\/i> by without a second glance if you knew it was just plain, common okra?<\/p>\n<p>Despite my 30+ years in the south, I&#8217;ve never become southern enough to enjoy eating okra. However, I do think it has a lovely flower&#8211;large compared with the other things which are flowering now (almost nothing) and a refreshing pale lemon color with a deep maroon eye. I planted a packet of okra seeds at the end of April. Most came up but only two seedlings survived the early triple-digit heat of May.<\/p>\n<p>They must have been flowering before this because I picked the first okra yesterday. And yes, the flowers are covered in ants&#8230;meaning (the photograph revealed what I didn&#8217;t see with my naked eye) that the okra has aphids. Still I think it&#8217;s a pretty flower. And I&#8217;m going to be practicing so that the next time you visit my garden, I can say, &#8220;Oh, let me show you my <i>Abelmoschus esculentus<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/okra1.jpg\" alt=\"okra\"  \/><br \/><i>Recognize this large and delicate yellow-colored flower that can stand even triple-digit heat?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[22,116,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383"}],"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=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5604,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/5604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}