{"id":18686,"date":"2016-03-04T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T13:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=18686"},"modified":"2016-03-04T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T13:40:21","slug":"longwood-to-feature-geophyte-bulbs-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=18686","title":{"rendered":"Longwood to feature geophyte bulbs in bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1300950\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vcsPRAsset_2774385_69107_d2c67c4f-b428-46b2-833f-b64ef617886f_0-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1300950\" class=\"wp-image-1300950 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vcsPRAsset_2774385_69107_d2c67c4f-b428-46b2-833f-b64ef617886f_0-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"vcsPRAsset_2774385_69107_d2c67c4f-b428-46b2-833f-b64ef617886f_0\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1300950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early spring bulbs in full bloom at Longwood Gardens.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2013 Although winter looks to make a final stand this weekend, already the signs of spring are literally poking through the ground. But at Longwood Garden, fully blooming flowers are already on display.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The early signs of spring are more beautiful than ever at Longwood Gardens with the addition of 500,000 geophyte bulbs now in\u00a0full bloom. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The geophytes, which were planted in October, join the hundreds of thousands of other early bulbs that have naturalized over the years throughout Longwood\u2019s landscape. Guests can see colorful sweeps of geophytes near the Peirce-du Pont House, Peirce\u2019s Park and Oak and Conifer Knoll, in addition to blankets of color on the lawns near the Flower Garden Walk, the Birdhouse Tree House, Eye of Water, and Oak Knoll. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Geophytes are non-woody flowering plants, and may be classified as bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes, and tuberous roots. Geophytes that naturalize will adapt to a site and reproduce as they would in their native habitat. Longwood gardeners have been naturalizing many small geophytes, creating large sweeps of color to brighten the late winter and early spring garden. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Geophytes are expected to be in bloom through late March.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2013 Although winter looks to make a final stand this weekend, already the signs of spring are literally poking through the ground. But at Longwood Garden, fully blooming flowers are already on display. The early signs of spring are more beautiful than ever at Longwood Gardens with the addition of 500,000 geophyte bulbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[7206,84],"class_list":["post-18686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-geophytes","tag-longwood-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}