{"id":555,"date":"2012-09-04T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/?p=555"},"modified":"2015-11-24T07:32:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T15:32:30","slug":"adding-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/adding-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

My back porch, which overlooks the garden, is awash in color right now. \u00a0My daughter\u2019s collection of pelargoniums, portulaca, purslane and assorted other summer bloomers are in their glory. \u00a0Looking at them is a treat, even though I know that it will be something less than a treat to get all those geraniums in the house when the nights start getting colder. \u00a0As Scarlett O\u2019Hara said in Gone With the Wind, <\/em>\u201cI\u2019ll think about that tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, though, I am using those pots to fix the disparity between the porch and the garden. \u00a0While the porch shines, the garden is hiding its lights until the asters bloom in a week or two. \u00a0By recombining the contents of a few of the porch containers, I can produce some abundant larger container arrangements to drop into bare spots in the garden.\u00a0 This will inspire me as I pull out the enormous tufts of crabgrass and make the wait for the asters a little easier.<\/p>\n

It is natural to be optimistic in the spring garden, but it is much more important in the fall. \u00a0I think that every bit of color you add helps to compensate\u2014at least a little–for the few moments of light that we lose with every fall day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My back porch, which overlooks the garden, is awash in color right now. \u00a0My daughter\u2019s collection of pelargoniums, portulaca, purslane and assorted other summer bloomers are in their glory. \u00a0Looking at them is a treat, even though I know that it will be something less than a treat to get all those geraniums in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[274,267,315,64,314,65,316,113],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall","category-general-interest","tag-container-gardening","tag-fall-gardening","tag-garden-bare-spots","tag-geraniums","tag-how-to-add-color-to-the-garden","tag-pelargoniums","tag-portulaca","tag-purslane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}