{"id":25,"date":"2002-06-05T13:26:43","date_gmt":"2002-06-05T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2017-07-17T20:53:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:53:10","slug":"allium-sphaerocephalon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/allium-sphaerocephalon\/","title":{"rendered":"Allium sphaerocephalon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drumstick onions take forever to unfurl. I&#8217;m always disappointed in the beginning and then end up being won over by their odd charms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the catalog description:<\/strong> Deep pink-reddish flowers. Height 32 inches. Late spring flowering. Plant 6 inches deep and 3 inches apart.<\/p>\n<h4>Zanthan Gardens History<\/h4>\n<p><strong>1998-11-24<\/strong><br \/>\nPlanted the ornamental drumstick onions that I purchased from Dutch Gardens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1998-12-01<\/strong><br \/>\nSprouted. (About 1 week).<\/p>\n<p><strong>1998-12-13<\/strong><br \/>\nRapidly attained a height of 10 to 12 inches with dark, straight, narrow leaves. They have a much neater habit than the <strong>A. neapolitanum<\/strong> and for that reason, I prefer them in the meadow. However, they weren&#8217;t supposed to bloom until late summer or fall. I was hoping they would replace the larkspur, But they are up before the larkspur and I might have to pull any larkspur I planted there so that it doesn&#8217;t compete and overshadow them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1999-05-05<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst flowers. On stems 30 to 36 inches tall. They tease for a long time in bud, then lose a papery case around the flowers and turn a lovely reddish-purple from the top down. They are very strange-looking and I like them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002-06-13<\/strong><br \/>\nThis year the first flowers began well after all the spring annuals had faded. Supplemental watering has lengthened the bloom period and resulted in larger flower heads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002-10-29<\/strong><br \/>\nDig up one clump that was weedy and divide and replant it. The leaves are about 8 inches long and the roots are well-established, but they didn&#8217;t seem to mind the transplanting very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant Profile: Allium sphaerocephalon<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/AlliumS2.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Allium Sphaerocephalon\" \/><br \/>\nJune 2, 2002 Austin Texas zone 8<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/AlliumS3.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Allium Sphaerocephalon\" \/><br \/>\nJune 5, 2002 Austin Texas zone 8<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/AlliumS4.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Allium Sphaerocephalon\" \/><br \/>\nJune 5, 2002 Austin Texas zone 8<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/AlliumS5.jpg\" alt=\"photo: Allium Sphaerocephalon\" \/><br \/>\nJune 11, 2002. As the drumsticks fully open they develop the shape that gave them their name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[29,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5210,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}