{"id":1428,"date":"2011-02-20T08:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2011-02-20T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T20:43:14","slug":"when-is-a-lambs-ear-not-a-lambs-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"When is a lamb’s ear not a lamb’s ear?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it’s a Verbascum thapsus<\/a> (Great or Common Mullein)<\/em>, of course! We finally managed to persist in our research long enough to track down the actual plant name.<\/p>\n

But I think they might always be lamb’s ears to us!<\/p>\n

And despite our best efforts to date at digging them all out, there’s still a huge number appearing as single rosettes or in little clumps around the place. We keep digging them out, and they keep popping back up. I guess it’s just going to be an ongoing war until either the seed bank or ourselves are exhausted. We’ll see who gives in first.<\/p>\n

But having seen what happens if you leave them to it<\/a> in Central, I think we’ll keep making the effort!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it’s a Verbascum thapsus (Great or Common Mullein), of course! We finally managed to persist in our research long enough to track down the actual plant name. But I think they might always be lamb’s ears to us! And despite our best efforts to date at digging them all out, there’s still a huge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}