{"id":4603,"date":"2015-07-12T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2015-07-12T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T19:00:54","slug":"puya-at-east-ruston-old-vicarage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4603","title":{"rendered":"Puya at East Ruston Old Vicarage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During our visit on Friday to the gardens at East Ruston Old Vicarage, In the Desert Wash garden we sought out the Puya which is in flower:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4115p1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4606 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4115p1a-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"puya flower-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4115p1a-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4115p1a-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4115p1a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4115p1a.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>We first saw this plant a couple of years ago but it was planted high up which limited the viewing of the plant, although we could see the outstanding flower colour. This time it was more accessible enabling me to get better photos. The first photo shown above shows the gorgeous dark turquoise colour of the petals with the contrasting orange stamens.<\/p>\n<p>This next image shows the flower spike:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4091p1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4091p1a-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"puya flower spike\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4091p1a-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4091p1a-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4091p1a-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4091p1a.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>and this is the whole plant:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4124p1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4604 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4124p1a-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"puya whole plant\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4124p1a-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4124p1a-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4124p1a-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4124p1a.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>and, to finish, another flower close-up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4121p1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4607 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4121p1a-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"puya flower-2\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4121p1a-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4121p1a-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4121p1a-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/E15_4121p1a.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Amazing colour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our visit on Friday to the gardens at East Ruston Old Vicarage, In the Desert Wash garden we sought out the Puya which is in flower: We first saw this plant a couple of years ago but it was planted high up which limited the viewing of the plant, although we could see the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Puya at East Ruston Old Vicarage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,52,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-garden","category-norfolk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}