{"id":5562,"date":"2013-04-21T20:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:14","slug":"scotch-broom-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/04\/scotch-broom-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotch Broom and Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotch Broom is considered an invasive plant in some states &#8212; in our yard it is a beloved show of spring&#8217;s arrival.\u00a0 We thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashevilleperennials.com\">Britt Averine<\/a> for suggesting and then planting these on our hillside a number of years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5568\" title=\"Scotch Broom Array\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0433.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0433-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A close-up look at the buttercup-like blossoms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5564\" title=\"Scotch Broom\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0348-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0348-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0348-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britt also planted some creeping phlox to help control hillside erosion.\u00a0 We love this too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0347.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5565\" title=\"Phlox\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0347-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0347-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0347-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> Nature reveals some of its DNA in our mountains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotch Broom is considered an invasive plant in some states &#8212; in our yard it is a beloved show of spring&#8217;s arrival.\u00a0 We thank Britt Averine for suggesting and then planting these on our hillside a number of years ago. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/04\/scotch-broom-and-friends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28348,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/28348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}