{"id":419,"date":"2012-04-05T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2012\/04\/columbine-jewel-of-the-spring-garden.html"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:48:59","slug":"columbine-jewel-of-the-spring-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2012\/04\/columbine-jewel-of-the-spring-garden.html","title":{"rendered":"Columbine, Jewel of the Spring Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/columbine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/columbine-300x200.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I love columbine (Aquilegia.)\u00a0 My first experience with columbine came only here in Virginia.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t grow it in my childhood garden and I vaguely remember it at the garden center where I worked.\u00a0 I saw it at Lowe&#8217;s here in Virginia and planted one, but like potato chips or M&amp;Ms, you can&#8217;t just have one columbine.\u00a0 And believe me, they see to that themselves; they seed prolifically, and I now have a lovely patch of smaller columbines under the large parent plant shown here like a hen with her chicks.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s gardening essay for Main Line Gardens is on the columbine.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love columbine (Aquilegia.)\u00a0 My first experience with columbine came only here in Virginia.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t grow it in my childhood garden and I vaguely remember it at the garden center where I worked.\u00a0 I saw it at Lowe&#8217;s here in Virginia and planted one, but like potato chips or M&amp;Ms, you can&#8217;t just have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2012\/04\/columbine-jewel-of-the-spring-garden.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"","tag":"","restrict_content":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1084],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-growing-flowers","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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