{"id":24817,"date":"2012-06-08T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=24817"},"modified":"2012-06-07T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:00:55","slug":"morning-eye-candy-the-understudies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/06\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-the-understudies\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: The Understudies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/rose-garden\/\">Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden<\/a> may have the most stage presence, but off in the <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/video\/impressive-numbers-for-year-one-of-the-earthkind-trials\/\">Earth-Kind\u00ae Rose Trial beds<\/a>, understudies are practicing for their shot at the spotlight. These starlets aren&#8217;t pampered, either; they&#8217;re thriving without the chemical coddling that so many roses are notorious for.<\/p>\n<p>When they&#8217;re done with their auditions (I&#8217;m really pushing the tasteful limits of this conceit, aren&#8217;t I?), those that make the cut could become available as choice breeds for rosarians frustrated with the tending trends of more high-maintenance varieties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Rose-Trial-Beds.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"24818\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/06\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-the-understudies\/attachment\/mec-rose-trial-beds\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Rose-Trial-Beds.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1664\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1338892006&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rose Trial Beds\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Rose-Trial-Beds-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Rose-Trial-Beds-1024x681.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-24818\" title=\"Rose Trial Beds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Rose-Trial-Beds-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Rose-Trial-Beds-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Rose-Trial-Beds-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Rose-Trial-Beds.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off on a hillside, roses of all shades are practicing for their chance at the spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":24818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146],"tags":[2533,1512,63,2534,60,192],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Rose-Trial-Beds.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-6sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24825,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817\/revisions\/24825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}