{"id":20362,"date":"2019-08-22T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20362"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:31:06","slug":"take-a-close-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/take-a-close-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a  Close Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20372\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/101a-952x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We tend to see gardens in the round and I seldom inspect individual plants. I often think I am missing something by not paying close attention. This obviously casual approach doesn&#8217;t work for those who specialise in a species or collect special examples of plants.<\/p>\n<h3>Careful Looking<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Patterns and repetitions can be fascinating. Not all are immediately obvious. There is a repetition of colour in the flowers, stems and hairs on the stems of this Geranium maderensis.<\/li>\n<li>Seed heads and capsules have their own shape and attraction. They also give good clues as to the species or family of the plant. You could guess this was a part of the geranium family.<\/li>\n<li>Plant explorers often took magnifying glasses to get to the crux of a plant.<\/li>\n<li>Insect life is not always visible to a casual observer and on the dahlia below the second fly could be missed. No big deal may be but for come the extra attention would be worthwhile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20288\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shipley-1a-1024x774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tend to see gardens in the round and I seldom inspect individual plants. I often think I am missing something by not paying close attention. This obviously casual approach doesn&#8217;t work for those who specialise in a species or collect special examples of plants. Careful Looking Patterns and repetitions can be fascinating. Not all are immediately obvious. There is a repetition of colour in the flowers, stems and hairs on the stems of this Geranium maderensis. Seed heads and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/take-a-close-look\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20376,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions\/20376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}