{"id":2713,"date":"2012-08-06T18:31:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2012-08-07T06:49:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T06:49:29","slug":"daily-garden-photo-scabious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Daily garden Photo: Scabious"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scabious has started to flower in our orchard:<\/p>\n

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Wild scabious flower - edited version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a cluster of these that have just come into flower over the past few days. I was lucky to be able to photograph these as my wife was out with the mower yesterday and I just managed to stop her before they all got mowed down. I find these are a really attractive flower and they are now making the transition from a wild flower to a garden plant – you can now buy them at garden centres.<\/p>\n

As the plant is tall and thin, the flower bobs around in the slightest breeze – to hold it in place I used my new home-made plant clamp (I cannot afford a manufactured one) – this cost less than \u00a35 and is made from a ‘car-boot’ cheap tripod, a ‘flexi-curve’ and a couple of clamps. It seems to work quite well – you can see it in action below:<\/p>\n

\"plant<\/a>– you can also see how close the mowing got yesterday! The original version of the photo is below:<\/p>\n

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Wild scabious - original version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These photos can be seen in the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The scabious has started to flower in our orchard: There is a cluster of these that have just come into flower over the past few days. I was lucky to be able to photograph these as my wife was out with the mower yesterday and I just managed to stop her before they all got … Continue reading “Daily garden Photo: Scabious”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}