{"id":461,"date":"2016-02-25T02:56:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T02:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/?p=461"},"modified":"2016-02-25T05:32:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T05:32:39","slug":"the-art-of-the-flower-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/the-art-of-the-flower-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Flower Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is so close I can feel it in my bones. I&#8217;m envisioning sprouting grape hyacinths, daffodils and peonies, greening herbs and rose buds. I can&#8217;t wait to get going in the garden, clearing up winter&#8217;s straggly leftovers, digging and planting . . . and sketching, painting and nature printing my rewards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-462\" src=\"http:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plant-a-Garden-Be-Happy-LBethmann.jpg\" alt=\"Plant A Garden Be Happy, Watercolor and Ink, Laura Bethmann\" width=\"3558\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plant-a-Garden-Be-Happy-LBethmann.jpg 3558w, https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plant-a-Garden-Be-Happy-LBethmann-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plant-a-Garden-Be-Happy-LBethmann-768x221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plant-a-Garden-Be-Happy-LBethmann-900x259.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3558px) 100vw, 3558px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I get to go to the largest indoor flower show in the world, practically on my doorstep &#8211; the Philadelphia Flower Show. People come from all over the world to visit, and to participate.\u00a0 There&#8217;s so much to see and do. Amazing exhibits, classes, garden related vendors, much more than I can list here (check the link below).\u00a0 The dates are March 5-13, 2016.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s theme is Explore America: 100 Years of the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been?\u00a0 All the information is on their website\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theflowershow.com\">Philadelphia Flower Show<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is so close I can feel it in my bones. I&#8217;m envisioning sprouting grape hyacinths, daffodils and peonies, greening herbs and rose buds. I can&#8217;t wait to get going in the garden, clearing up winter&#8217;s straggly leftovers, digging and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/the-art-of-the-flower-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}