{"id":1229,"date":"2026-04-19T21:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:40:37","slug":"first-iris-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"FIRST IRIS 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>How exciting!!!<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>The first Iris of the season sneaked in on me. I had my eye on a dark purple tall bearded iris  which was just starting to unfold. I just knew it was going to be the first one to bloom.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Going out for my morning stroll yesterday, I spotted&#8230;way down at the end of the yard&#8230;. a FLOWER! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Not quite as showy as the fancy,  frilly cultivars but nevertheless most welcome!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-black-background-color has-background wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1230\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/04\/20260419_1052201-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/04\/20260419_1052201-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/04\/20260419_1052201-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/04\/20260419_1052201-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/04\/20260419_1052201-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/04\/20260419_1052201-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/04\/20260419_1052201-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/04\/20260419_1052201-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/04\/20260419_1052201-2000x2000.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>First of the season, heirloom iris.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How exciting!!!The first Iris of the season sneaked in on me. I had my eye on a dark purple tall bearded iris which was just starting to unfold. I just knew it was going to be the first one to bloom. Going out for my morning stroll yesterday, I spotted&#8230;way down at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}