{"id":6472,"date":"2016-05-09T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:22:30","slug":"putting-down-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/putting-down-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting down roots&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Common Milkweed Seed as it begins germination&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6473\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5653.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5653.jpg 600w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5653-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quick Note that this seed (and the others planted with it) were left neglected for a year.\u00a0 I set them to cold\/moist stratify in my fridge last spring (2015).\u00a0 They were in sealed ziploc bags with moist paper towels in a garage refrigerator.\u00a0 Then I ran out of places to plant them (and the energy to dig new places to plant them) as summer set in.\u00a0 Then, this fall I forgot they were there again&#8230;\u00a0 2 weeks ago I decided to put them in a large planter just to see if they might do something.\u00a0 Sure enough!\u00a0 Even after a year of neglect they are germinating.\u00a0 Several very large pots full of common milkweed sprouts!\u00a0 Very exciting and hopeful the mama Monarchs will find them here in our yard this summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Common Milkweed Seed as it begins germination&#8230; Quick Note that this seed (and the others planted with it) were left neglected for a year.\u00a0 I set them to cold\/moist stratify in my fridge last spring (2015).\u00a0 They were in sealed ziploc bags with moist paper towels in a garage refrigerator.\u00a0 Then I ran out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[925,12,922,1001,11,300],"tags":[1068,1069,293,1072,942,447,1018,1071,952,1070],"class_list":["post-6472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers-in-the-garden","category-flowers","category-in-the-garden","category-macro-portraiture","category-nature","category-portraiture","tag-common-milkweed","tag-germination","tag-macro","tag-macro-photography","tag-milkweed","tag-monarch","tag-nature-photography","tag-root","tag-seed","tag-tap-root"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}