{"id":2419,"date":"2009-03-07T20:46:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T01:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2017-07-20T18:25:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T23:25:40","slug":"pretty-in-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/pretty-in-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty in Pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last October I posted about how certain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2397\" rel=\"bookmark\">lurid fall pinks<\/a> made my skin crawl. Those pinks were so intense, so clashing, and completely out of season. In my mind Autumn belongs to the brilliant yellow, orange, and red spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>You might have concluded that I&#8217;m the kind of girl who shies away from pink. Although I do gravitate towards black, whites, and grays, I can embrace pink if it&#8217;s icy pale and delicate and in its season: Spring.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I never get tired of photographing the gorgeous &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2397\">Souvenir de la Malmaison<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/rose_Malmaison20090307a.jpg\" alt=\"rose Souvenir de la Malmaison\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this year, after a 10-year hiatus, I made another attempt to grow &#8216;Angelique&#8217; tulips. They are struggling in our run of 80-degree days but one flower has opened and I think they&#8217;re worth the effort.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/tulip_Angelique1.jpg\" alt=\"tulip Angelique\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zanthan\/3336149085\/\" title=\"Pink Bluebonnet by Zanthan Photos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3560\/3336149085_e5e3ef0669.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Pink Bluebonnet\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Delicate pink bluebonnet&#8211;a natural variation.<\/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":[375,444,492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419"}],"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=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5624,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}