{"id":16886,"date":"2018-06-04T00:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T04:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=16886"},"modified":"2018-06-04T00:35:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T04:35:34","slug":"geraniums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=16886","title":{"rendered":"Geraniums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a bedding sort of gardener. I used to be a serious gardener, knowing all the real names of things and their growing requirements and all but now&#8230; well, I enjoy what I have and take things as they come. Even though I don&#8217;t do window boxes or planters I do like a good geranium. Last year I had one that was quite small and bushy and so dark red it was almost black. And it seems to have survived being dormant for the winter. We&#8217;ll see what happens to it. This year I got two more traditional pots, meant to hang, of &#8220;ivy&#8221; type geraniums. One is a darker burgundy color and the other is the standard bright scarlet. And I won&#8217;t lie, I got them mainly as things to enjoy and to paint. So here are the first goes at painting geraniums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran2.jpg\" title=\"Second Geranium Painting\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran2-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran2-577x400.jpg 577w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran2-1024x710.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran1.jpg\" title=\"First geranium painting \" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran1-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran1-583x400.jpg 583w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/geran1-1024x703.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and now, the patient and beautiful real geranium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/real_geran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/real_geran.jpg\" title=\"The Patient and Real Geranium\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/real_geran.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/real_geran-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/real_geran-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/real_geran-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a bedding sort of gardener. I used to be a serious gardener, knowing all the real names of things and their growing requirements and all but now&#8230; well, I enjoy what I have and take things as they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=16886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,222,51,740],"tags":[202,422,192,465],"class_list":["post-16886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-the-work","category-gardens-and-flowers","category-the-creative-process","category-watercolor","tag-dothework","tag-flowers","tag-process","tag-watercolor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-4om","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16890,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16886\/revisions\/16890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}