{"id":863,"date":"2009-03-02T01:10:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eloine.com\/gardenblog\/2009\/03\/my-terrific-tulip\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T01:10:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T01:10:02","slug":"my-terrific-tulip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/archives\/863","title":{"rendered":"My terrific tulip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/gardenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/elc_0086-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"My terrific tulip\" title=\"elc_0086\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My terrific tulip<\/figcaption><\/figure>I just have to share this wonderful tulip that came up yesterday. I have never really been a big fan of bulbs or tulips but I attended this workshop by a nursery in Oakley. The woman who ran the workshop had so much knowledge and went on about how her bulbs were the best. They were giant bulbs so I had to give it a shot. I put them in the fridge for a week before I planted in November. She said Thanksgiving is the cut off date. Then I used bulb food and bone meal. When the plants started to come up in late January it had black aphids so I sprayed for that and since then the plants are incredibly strong and healthy looking. I also spread grounds from Starbucks on the top as well. Not sure if that helped or not but I was really surprised at how breathtaking this flower it. It&#8217;s made me a fan of tulips!<\/p>\n<p>View the <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/eloine\/Tulip?feat=embedwebsite#slideshow\">slideshow of a tulip I picked<\/a>. I used nothing but the light of my iPhone to light it. I like the soft even light it gives it. I used an 8 second exposure on the camera in manual mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to share this wonderful tulip that came up yesterday. I have never really been a big fan of bulbs or tulips but I attended this workshop by a nursery in Oakley. The woman who ran the workshop had so much knowledge and went on about how her bulbs were the best. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tulip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}