{"id":2272,"date":"2012-01-11T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T02:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2012-01-11T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T02:47:25","slug":"wildflower%e2%80%9d-of-the-month-%e2%80%93-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wildflower\u201d of the month \u2013 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yarrow.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yarrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"yarrow\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh! Oh! I know this one! It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Achillea_millefolium\">yarrow, otherwise known as <i>Achillea millefolium<\/i><\/a>. I think I&#8217;ll stick to yarrow!<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;ve certainly got a lot of swathes of yarrow leaves around in the paddocks since we had the grass cut once again I had to venture down the back to find these specimens for you. Aren&#8217;t you lucky!? We&#8217;ve even got some really pink yarrow flowers down there too, but the photo turned out rubbish and it&#8217;s too hot to go for another walk. So tough luck there.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun over the winter to watch birds perching on the top of the dried up flower stalks and eating the yarrow seeds. At the time I was amazed by the fact that the yarrow stayed standing with a bird on it. Now, having had to pick up quite a few birds that the cats have dragged in I&#8217;m not so amazed by the yarrow, I&#8217;m just amazed at how little birds weigh!<\/p>\n<p>Nice as yarrow flowers are, they can be a right spreading pain in the butt. Around the vege garden I keep having to pull out huge matted pads of the roots. They go for miles and miles. Blech. But at least they come out relatively easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh! Oh! I know this one! It&#8217;s yarrow, otherwise known as Achillea millefolium. I think I&#8217;ll stick to yarrow! While we&#8217;ve certainly got a lot of swathes of yarrow leaves around in the paddocks since we had the grass cut once again I had to venture down the back to find these specimens for you. [&hellip;]<\/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\/2272"}],"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=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}