{"id":1485,"date":"2022-08-20T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T15:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:20:37","slug":"poppies-gone-bring-in-the-real-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/poppies-gone-bring-in-the-real-wildflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppies begone- bring in the real wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I was lucky to acquire some pollinator plants from a nearby neighbor who was hosting a plant giveaway. How nice of them! We got there early as we knew there would be a limited supply. They must have had thirty different species, some sun-loving, some for shade. See: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe are all very passionate about native pollinators.\u201d<br>Click to read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/local-ancaster\/news\/2022\/08\/04\/ancaster-resident-craig-cassar-offers-free-pollinator-plants-to-help-endangered-species.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ancaster resident Craig Cassar offers free pollinator plants to help endangered species<\/a><\/p><cite>Craig Cassar<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I managed to pick up (amongst other plants that I can&#8217;t remember off the top of my head) some <strong>milkweed, bergamot, little bluestem grass, coreopsis, and some grey-headed coneflowers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Real Wildflowers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You may have <a href=\"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/the-problem-with-wildflower-seed-packs\/\">read my other post<\/a> about the wildflower patch I have which is full of <em>poppies <\/em>mostly. So today I&#8217;m ripping all of that out and putting these in that space. Here they will be nurtured until spring when they will find their permanent homes. I&#8217;m hoping to start a large native plant garden on my front lawn. The project marches on! Wish me luck in the comments area \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OE6yCYRc5WE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was lucky to acquire some pollinator plants from a nearby neighbor who was hosting a plant giveaway. How nice of them! We got there early as we knew there would be a limited supply. They must have had thirty different species, some sun-loving, some for shade. See: \u201cWe are all very passionate about &#8230; <a title=\"Poppies begone- bring in the real wildflowers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/poppies-gone-bring-in-the-real-wildflowers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Poppies begone- bring in the real wildflowers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backyardnaturelab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}