{"id":4222,"date":"2013-08-13T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T02:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2013-08-19T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T08:18:42","slug":"blue-squill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/13\/blue-squill\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Squill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4191\" alt=\"20130816 013\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-013-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-013-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-013.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A number of our blue squill (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_squill\"><em>Chamaescilla corymbosa<\/em><\/a>) are unfurling their flowers now. \u00a0They are usually the first <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/wildlife\/flowers\/\">flowers<\/a>\u00a0to appear in spring. They are part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asparagaceae\" target=\"_blank\">Asparagaceae<\/a>\u00a0family like the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/01\/lovely-lomandra\/\">lomandra<\/a>\u00a0and are \u00a0perennial herbs that have an edible tuber. \u00a0The flowers are mostly blue, but as can be seen from this photo can range between\u00a0a deep blue through to white.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4188\" alt=\"20130816 022\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-022-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-022-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-022.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of our blue squill (Chamaescilla corymbosa) are unfurling their flowers now. \u00a0They are usually the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130816-013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}