{"id":345,"date":"2013-06-21T01:04:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T01:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T20:50:01","slug":"gardenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Gardenia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?attachment_id=331\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-331\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SSCN0651.jpg\" alt=\"gardenia\" class=\"wp-image-331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SSCN0651.jpg 640w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SSCN0651-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SSCN0651-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The queen of all southern flowers, in my opinion, is the <strong>Gardenia<\/strong>.&nbsp;This gorgeous blossom is from the largest of my Gardenia shrubs. I have pruned it every spring for 5 years, but at over 8 ft. tall, it&#8217;s due for a major cutting next year. Being planted close to house on the front corner allows the flower&#8217;s lovely perfume to drift into the open windows on early summer evenings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?attachment_id=330\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-330\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SSCN0650-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gardeniavase\" class=\"wp-image-330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SSCN0650-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SSCN0650-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SSCN0650.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The crisp white flowers are so beautiful. When cut and brought inside, their heavenly fragrance fills the air for days before fading. This evergreen shrub only flowers for a few weeks each year, some varieties longer and more than once, but it&#8217;s well worth the wait to enjoy this amazing plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The queen of all southern flowers, in my opinion, is the Gardenia.&nbsp;This gorgeous blossom is from the largest of my Gardenia shrubs. I have pruned it every spring for 5 years, but at over 8 ft. tall, it&#8217;s due for a major cutting next year. Being planted close to house on the front corner allows &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gardenia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2,12,8],"tags":[78,46,109,29,26,38,28],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushes","category-landscapeplants","category-perennials","category-shrubs","tag-deer-resistant","tag-drought-tolerant","tag-gardenia","tag-georgia","tag-organic","tag-perennial","tag-zone-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}