{"id":372,"date":"2003-04-23T22:19:20","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T03:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2017-07-17T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:00:21","slug":"iris-seakist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/iris-seakist\/","title":{"rendered":"Iris &#8216;Seakist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in love with tall bearded irises the first time I saw a photo of &#8216;Seakist&#8217;. The photo made me send off for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schreinersgardens.com\/\">Schreiner&#8217;s Iris Catalog<\/a> and then I fell in love with a dozen more varieties of iris. I couldn&#8217;t afford &#8216;Seakist&#8217; that first year or even the second year. But when the price fell to $15.00 a rhizome, I was determined to have it, even though it was the most I&#8217;d ever paid for a bulb of any kind.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/iris_Seakist2.jpg\" alt=\"photo: iris Seakist\" \/><br \/>Photo: tall bearded iris &#8216;Seakist&#8217;<br \/>2003-04-23. Austin, Texas (Zone 8)<\/p>\n<p>As often happens with objects of desire, the reality didn&#8217;t live up to my expectation. No mistake, &#8216;Seakist&#8217; is an extremely vigorous iris, often with multiple stalks to each rhizome. It needs plenty of room to spread and I&#8217;ve made the mistake of planting them too close together. The flowers are large and substantial. The standards are a deep linen white, almost ecru and the falls a watered silk of indigo and plum. But to my eye, when the colors run together, they seem muddy. Now I prefer the crisp striations of plicatas.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/iris_Seakist3.jpg\" alt=\"photo: iris Seakist\" width=\"320px\" \/><br \/>Photo: tall bearded iris &#8216;Seakist&#8217;<br \/> 2004-05-13. Austin, Texas (Zone 8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/iris_Seakist1.jpg\" alt=\"photo: iris Seakist\" \/><br \/>Photo: tall bearded iris &#8216;Seakist&#8217;<br \/>2002-04-15. Austin, Texas (Zone 8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}