{"id":18327,"date":"2010-05-15T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T21:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18327"},"modified":"2015-01-30T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T20:35:24","slug":"and-still-two-more-iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/15\/and-still-two-more-iris\/","title":{"rendered":"And Still Two More Iris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two additional varieties of iris bloomed today. We don&#8217;t know the names of either of them, because, well,  we didn&#8217;t buy them.<\/p>\n<p>The first came into our possession because Irene was driving down the road several miles away here in Back Creek Valley, saw some blooming iris she liked, and stopped and asked whether she could come back and take a few rhizomes at the end of the season. She traded some of our purple iris in return, because that&#8217;s the neighborly thing to do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iris59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iris59-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Iris59\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iris59-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iris59.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This second iris was in our Damascus garden when we bought the property in 1989. When we left in 2004, we took it with us. Would you have left it behind?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iris510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iris510-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Iris510\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iris510-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iris510.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see all 13 varieties so far, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157623881473745\/\">flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two additional varieties of iris bloomed today. We don&#8217;t know the names of either of them, because, well, we didn&#8217;t buy them. The first came into our possession because Irene was driving down the road several miles away here in Back Creek Valley, saw some blooming iris she liked, and stopped and asked whether she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18330,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions\/18330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}