{"id":6039,"date":"2023-04-05T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:02:38","slug":"iris-lady-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/iris-lady-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Iris &#8216;Lady Friend&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Garden History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023-03-09 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchased from <a href=\"https:\/\/gilberthwild.com\/products\/lady-friend-iris\/\">Gilbert H. Wild and Son<\/a> for $11.75. They came beautifully packaged in pots with good root growth. Fed each with Bulbtone when planting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/iris_20230309_map.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023-04-05<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First flower&#8230;only a month after I planted it. In my experience it usually it takes a year or two for irises to settle in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/iris_LadyFriend_20230405b.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Color described as &#8220;garnet-rose&#8221; (a rich, saturated, dark red).  The photos on the sellers website made it look more rust than my photos which look more maroon (more muted, earthy red with chocolate tones).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/iris_LadyFriend_20230405a.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039"}],"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=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}