{"id":916,"date":"2010-02-26T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2010-02-26T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:50:16","slug":"enter-the-plums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Plums&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thicketing-plum-flowers2764.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-915\" title=\"thicketing-plum-flowers276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thicketing-plum-flowers2764-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thicketing-plum-flowers2764-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thicketing-plum-flowers2764.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The earliest native plum is a thicketing bush plum that&#8217;s spread in what we laughingly call\u00a0 the orchard.\u00a0\u00a0 First bloom opened yesterday;\u00a0 this morning I found these, with many more to come.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Clearly the snow a few days ago didn&#8217;t bother these plums.\u00a0 In one more day I expect these buds to be open:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thicketing-plum-buds2771.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-917\" title=\"thicketing-plum-buds277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thicketing-plum-buds2771-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thicketing-plum-buds2771-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/thicketing-plum-buds2771.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have three varieties (or species?) of thicketing plum on the place: this one, all the scions of the original,\u00a0 another very short one that blooms last, and a taller, head-high one down near the creek that blooms second.<\/p>\n<p>The other native plum is a small to medium-sized tree, the Mexican plum.\u00a0 Its flowers are a little larger and I expect it to pop sometime in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Plum opens after the first elbowbush but the blooming periods overlap.\u00a0 The elbowbushes bloom individually for a short time, but since the blooming is staggered, it seems longer&#8211;and the same with the plums.\u00a0 Each blossom lasts only a day or so, but they don&#8217;t all open at once&#8211;and even in this thicket some individual plants have finished while others are just starting.\u00a0 Thus the insects that need an early pollen\/nectar source have a better chance of surviving through cold spells (even snow) and rainy ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest native plum is a thicketing bush plum that&#8217;s spread in what we laughingly call\u00a0 the orchard.\u00a0\u00a0 First bloom opened yesterday;\u00a0 this morning I found these, with many more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,7],"tags":[13,32,70],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-plantlife","tag-beauty","tag-native-plants","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}