{"id":29709,"date":"2019-08-31T22:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T22:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29709"},"modified":"2019-08-31T22:48:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T22:48:12","slug":"seed-heads-and-wild-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29709","title":{"rendered":"Seed heads and wild flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leek seed heads on our veg plot have been dramatic all summer. They have now come to their end so my husband decided to cut them down and put them in our enamel jug in the kitchen and see what they do.<\/p>\n<p>I arranged them and took a photo but the corner of the kitchen was a bit dark so I photographed them on the table by the back door to show them off properly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29716\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29716\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29716\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29716\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29716\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ajug-of-leek-seed-heads.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ajug-of-leek-seed-heads.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ajug-of-leek-seed-heads-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ajug-of-leek-seed-heads-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jug of leek seed heads<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29717\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29717\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29717\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29717\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/in-the-kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/in-the-kitchen.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/in-the-kitchen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/in-the-kitchen-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the kitchen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A bit later my husband visited the allotment and bought me back some wild flowers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29719\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29719\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29719\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29719\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29719\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/another-jug-of-wild-flowers-from-the-allotment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/another-jug-of-wild-flowers-from-the-allotment.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/another-jug-of-wild-flowers-from-the-allotment-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/another-jug-of-wild-flowers-from-the-allotment-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another jug of wild flowers from the allotment<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29720\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29720\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29720\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29720\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/and-some-poppies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/and-some-poppies.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/and-some-poppies-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/and-some-poppies-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And some poppies<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The poppies are so fragile that I put them in a separate little vase. The flowers are so pretty and provide such a lovely splash of colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leek seed heads on our veg plot have been dramatic all summer. They have now come to their end so my husband decided to cut them down and put them in our enamel jug in the kitchen and see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29709\">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\/29709"}],"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=29709"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29723,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29709\/revisions\/29723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}