{"id":2843,"date":"2009-09-28T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T02:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2019-12-25T11:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T17:43:18","slug":"bluebonnet-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/bluebonnet-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluebonnet Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever bought bluebonnet seeds, you might have noticed that they looked like varied multi-colored pebbles. But if you collect your own seeds, you might notice that all the seeds from the same plant look alike.<\/p>\n<p>When the bluebonnets are blooming in my yard, I go around marking plants from which I want to save seeds. I&#8217;m a bit of an extremist so I tend to mark plants with the deepest blue flowers and the palest blue flowers. Every once in awhile a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zanthan\/3336149085\/\">pale pink bluebonnet<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=329\">white bluebonnet<\/a> will appear but these rarely set many seeds. I saved seeds from the child of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2320\">oversummering, December-blooming<\/a> bluebonnet and notice how pale beige they are compared with the others.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/BluebonnetSeeds5.jpg\" alt=\"bluebonnet seeds\" \/><br \/><i>I saved these seeds not because the plants were remarkable but because the seeds themselves were so pretty.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The week before we went on vacation seven of inches of rain fell and immediately the bluebonnets began sprouting. The week we were gone, we received an additional 3.5 inches. I returned to find my yard covered in bluebonnet sprouts of the seeds I didn&#8217;t save. I&#8217;m going to have to hustle to get my saved seeds in the ground somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/BluebonnetSeeds4.jpg\" alt=\"bluebonnet seeds\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[75,297,432],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843"}],"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=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}