{"id":9105,"date":"2011-04-01T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:34:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:34:56","slug":"what-fargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2011\/04\/what-fargo\/","title":{"rendered":"What The F(argo)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fargo4.jpg?resize=400%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">With 8 inches of heavy wet snow on this April Fool&#8217;s Day, I feel obligated to share the prerequisite Hamamelis and crocus-in-the-snow shots (sans the crocus since the snow crushed them all.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">If the sun comes out, perhaps there will be more images to share before it all melts). Now, back to preparing for my presentation tomorrow on The Alpine Plants of Switzerland and Italian Alps that I am giving at the Berkshire NARGS chapter. This late snow is getting me &#8216;in the mood&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fargo3.jpg?resize=400%2C346&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fargo2.jpg?resize=400%2C258&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"400\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 8 inches of heavy wet snow on this April Fool&#8217;s Day, I feel obligated to share the prerequisite Hamamelis and crocus-in-the-snow shots (sans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9106,"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-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What The F(argo)? 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