{"id":20465,"date":"2021-06-15T18:32:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T23:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20465"},"modified":"2021-06-18T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:20:13","slug":"platycodon-grandiflorus-balloon-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20465","title":{"rendered":"<em>Platycodon grandiflorus<\/em> (Balloon Flower)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20467\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210615_183426.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20467\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210615_183426-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Platycodon grandiflorus (Balloon Flower)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210615_183426-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210615_183426-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210615_183426-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210615_183426-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_20210615_183426.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Platycodon grandiflorus<\/em> (Balloon Flower)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few weeks ago we went to Stadler&#8217;s with our friend Yvette to buy a few plants for her. She wanted to plant something in memory of her nephew and wanted something blue. She settled on a balloon flower (<em>Platycodon grandiflorus<\/em>), which is actually more blue to the eye than it appears here. It&#8217;s a really pretty perennial that should do well as long as it&#8217;s got the right amount of water. We bought one, too, and have it in a container outside our front door, greeting us with these big, sky blue flowers, and reminding us of Jack, as well. It&#8217;s native to the northern far-east and is quite hardy and easily grown. The only thing to watch out for is wet or poorly-drained soils (which is why growing it in a container is easier for us).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago we went to Stadler&#8217;s with our friend Yvette to buy a few plants for her. She wanted to plant something in memory of her nephew and wanted something blue. She settled on a balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus), which is actually more blue to the eye than it appears here. It&#8217;s a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20465\">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":[2830,110,1018,1654,1674,2828,2829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20465"}],"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=20465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20468,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20465\/revisions\/20468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}