{"id":21852,"date":"2019-04-20T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T18:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=21852"},"modified":"2019-04-20T20:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T18:18:55","slug":"spring-beauty-time-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=21852","title":{"rendered":"Spring beauty time in the garden!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My spring beauties are flowering in the garden, appearing a little before wood anemones (hvitveis).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21853 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/P1150537-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/P1150537-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/P1150537-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/P1150537.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The one I grow is Claytonia virginica and last summer I found this monster tuber:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21855 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/P1840883-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/P1840883-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/P1840883-1-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/P1840883-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n(see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18443\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=18443<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t got round to eating the tubers (Euell Gibbons was a fan!), but I regularly eat the spring leaves and flowers in mixed salads. I would love also to try\u00a0 other tuberous species like Claytonia caroliniana and C. tuberosa but have never seen a source\u00a0 :-(<\/p>\n<p>More about spring beauties in Green Deane&#8217;s article here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eattheweeds.com\/spring-beauty\">http:\/\/www.eattheweeds.com\/spring-beauty<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"13CGcUWZal\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eattheweeds.com\/spring-beauty\/\">Spring Beauty<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Spring Beauty&#8221; &#8212; Eat The Weeds and other things, too\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eattheweeds.com\/spring-beauty\/embed\/#?secret=w5vimpP85O#?secret=13CGcUWZal\" data-secret=\"13CGcUWZal\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My spring beauties are flowering in the garden, appearing a little before wood anemones (hvitveis). The one I grow is Claytonia virginica and last summer I found this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1355,16],"tags":[1177,680],"class_list":["post-21852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perennial-vegetables","category-root-crops","tag-claytonia-virginica","tag-spring-beauty"],"views":2267,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21856,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852\/revisions\/21856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}