{"id":10516,"date":"2010-04-21T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:47:54","slug":"spring-sprouts-in-living-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Sprouts in Living Color"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Asian Pear Blossoms. Maybe this year, the bees will be able to pollenate, we have four varieties of Asian Pears, which are almost as pretty as the over-planted Bradford Pears, but these will give us fruit that we can eat – crispy Asian pears.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
Spiderwort ( in yellow) and an emerging Peony, show just how colorful spring sprouts can be.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
Ferns, native ones, uncurl their fiddle heads in the woodland behind the Pheasant house.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
Japanese Maples, like this ‘Sagu kagu’ coral bark maple, are very attractive in the early, spring flush.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

A more mature Japanese Maple, a Lion’s Mane form, displays extraordinary color in the spring sunlight, which also comes at extreme angles as the sun sets, just as in autumn, illuminating the colorful foliage. Many Japanese maples offer such displays in the spring, as well as in the autumn. New leaves emerge either in a lime green, or bright pink or red.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
Crambe cordifolia (Kramm-bee) is an interesting and rarely seen perennial that is in the cabbage family. If you want a cloud composed of thousands of tiny white flowers in your June Perennial Bed, look for this at your best garden center. It doesn’t look like much here, but in a month, these crispy, purple stems will hold large, rhubarb-sized leaves, and a 5 or 6 foot cloud of white flowers. Another species, Crambe maritima is eaten in the UK, in the spring, where it is also called Sea Kale.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The umbrella-like foliage of May Apples, or May Pop ( our native f Polophyllum peltatum). Always fun too see.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

A crop of Winter Rye sprouts in one of the raised beds, next to the sweet pea stakes, a woven fence of white willow branches. This winter rye was planted as a green compost 4 weeks ago. In a few weeks, it will be turned under with a pitch fork, where it will enrich the soil for a crop of corn. Green composts are one way to add more nutrition to a garden, even if it is a tiny, square-foot raised bed.<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asian Pear Blossoms. Maybe this year, the bees will be able to pollenate, we have four varieties of Asian Pears, which are almost as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSpring Sprouts in Living Color - Growing With Plants<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spring Sprouts in Living Color - Growing With Plants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Asian Pear Blossoms. Maybe this year, the bees will be able to pollenate, we have four varieties of Asian Pears, which are almost as...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Growing With Plants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/matt.mattus.7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-21T17:08:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-13T22:47:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"229\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matt Mattus\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matt Mattus\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Matt Mattus\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/person\/785c3fc728469f03242c77ea5cdec92a\"},\"headline\":\"Spring Sprouts in Living Color\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-21T17:08:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-13T22:47:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/\"},\"wordCount\":343,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/\",\"name\":\"Spring Sprouts in Living Color - Growing With Plants\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-21T17:08:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-13T22:47:54+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1\",\"width\":400,\"height\":229},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Spring Sprouts in Living Color\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/\",\"name\":\"Growing With Plants\",\"description\":\"Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Growing With Plants\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cropped-250-logo.png?fit=302%2C120&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cropped-250-logo.png?fit=302%2C120&ssl=1\",\"width\":302,\"height\":120,\"caption\":\"Growing With Plants\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/matt.mattus.7\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/matt_mattus\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCkLo0i99xbBeQaysV6Lo-DA\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/person\/785c3fc728469f03242c77ea5cdec92a\",\"name\":\"Matt Mattus\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Matt Mattus\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/author\/12304130532778622628\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Spring Sprouts in Living Color - Growing With Plants","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Spring Sprouts in Living Color - Growing With Plants","og_description":"Asian Pear Blossoms. Maybe this year, the bees will be able to pollenate, we have four varieties of Asian Pears, which are almost as...","og_url":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/","og_site_name":"Growing With Plants","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/matt.mattus.7","article_published_time":"2010-04-21T17:08:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-08-13T22:47:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":400,"height":229,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Matt Mattus","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matt Mattus","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/"},"author":{"name":"Matt Mattus","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/person\/785c3fc728469f03242c77ea5cdec92a"},"headline":"Spring Sprouts in Living Color","datePublished":"2010-04-21T17:08:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-08-13T22:47:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/"},"wordCount":343,"commentCount":4,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/","url":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/","name":"Spring Sprouts in Living Color - Growing With Plants","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1","datePublished":"2010-04-21T17:08:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-08-13T22:47:54+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1","width":400,"height":229},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/04\/spring-sprouts-in-living-color\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Spring Sprouts in Living Color"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#website","url":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/","name":"Growing With Plants","description":"Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#organization","name":"Growing With Plants","url":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cropped-250-logo.png?fit=302%2C120&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/cropped-250-logo.png?fit=302%2C120&ssl=1","width":302,"height":120,"caption":"Growing With Plants"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/matt.mattus.7","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/matt_mattus\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCkLo0i99xbBeQaysV6Lo-DA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/person\/785c3fc728469f03242c77ea5cdec92a","name":"Matt Mattus","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Matt Mattus"},"url":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/author\/12304130532778622628\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sprout_asianpear.jpg?fit=400%2C229&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10525,"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions\/10525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}