{"id":1497,"date":"2026-09-17T14:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:02:53","slug":"mums-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"MUM&#8217;S THE WORD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the covid scare hit, we became hermits just to be on the safe side.<br>Gradually things went back to normal with one exception.<br>I found I liked being a hermit!<br>Now I have no desire to go anywhere and avoid going out as much as I possibly can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s time to plant mums in the garden for fall color and deco, and I decided to do something a little different this year&#8230;.Order online!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First two orders went to Walmart and Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Walmart order arrived last night&#8230;(LATE last night, but that is another story.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were perfect, with a nice blend of fully opened blooms and buds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/09\/20260917_072857-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/09\/20260917_072857-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/09\/20260917_072857-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/09\/20260917_072857-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/09\/20260917_072857.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the covid scare hit, we became hermits just to be on the safe side.Gradually things went back to normal with one exception.I found I liked being a hermit!Now I have no desire to go anywhere and avoid going out as much as I possibly can. It&#8217;s time to plant mums in the garden for [&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","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=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}