{"id":16812,"date":"2019-04-13T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16812"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:39:04","slug":"tulip-van-eijk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16812","title":{"rendered":"Tulip \u2018Van Eijk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16814\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190413_163986.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16814\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190413_163986-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Tulip \u2018Van Eijk\u2019\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16814\" data-wp-pid=\"16814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190413_163986-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190413_163986-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190413_163986-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190413_163986-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190413_163986-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190413_163986.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tulip \u2018Van Eijk\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the fall of 2009 and again in 2010 I bought a pretty good number of bulbs from McClure and Zimmerman (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzbulb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mzbulb.com\/<\/a>). In each of those orders they threw in five tulip of the variety \u2018Van Eijk\u2019. There are still ten plants growing where I planted them although we only have six blooms this year. Tulips are not terribly long-lived plants, certainly not in our area, anyway, so the fact that these are still blooming after 8 or nine years is pretty good. They&#8217;re quite bright and a sea of them would be more impressive than the six I have, of course. In general, though, I&#8217;m more a fan of daffodils, which seem to live forever and form large clumps over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 2009 and again in 2010 I bought a pretty good number of bulbs from McClure and Zimmerman (https:\/\/www.mzbulb.com\/). In each of those orders they threw in five tulip of the variety \u2018Van Eijk\u2019. There are still ten plants growing where I planted them although we only have six blooms this year. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16812\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[87,29,1604,205,479,1629,1628,1630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16815,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions\/16815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}