{"id":27524,"date":"2019-01-15T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=27524"},"modified":"2019-01-15T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:15:57","slug":"signs-of-spring-in-the-garden-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=27524","title":{"rendered":"Signs of spring in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are signs of spring in the garden. The pulmonarias have started to flower and so have the primulas. Bulbs are pushing through and new green growth is erupting. The first proper sign of spring though is always the snowdrops and hellebores.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27539\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=27539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27539\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27539\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27539\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/snowdrops.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/snowdrops.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/snowdrops-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/snowdrops-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowdrops<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_27540\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=27540\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27540\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27540\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/helebores.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/helebores.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/helebores-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/helebores-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">hellebores<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love to see the first snowdrops appear every year. Bigger, later, ones will follow but these smaller ones always come up first. It brings the feeling that spring is that little bit closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are signs of spring in the garden. The pulmonarias have started to flower and so have the primulas. Bulbs are pushing through and new green growth is erupting. The first proper sign of spring though is always the snowdrops &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=27524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27524"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27544,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524\/revisions\/27544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}