{"id":26005,"date":"2012-07-04T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=26005"},"modified":"2012-07-03T15:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T19:28:59","slug":"morning-eye-candy-flowering-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/07\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-flowering-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Flowering Fireworks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Fourth, everyone! Not only is the Garden open for regular hours today, but it&#8217;s a Wednesday, meaning free grounds admission for any and all visitors. The <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/07\/around-the-garden\/this-week-at-the-greenmarket-happy-independence-day\/\">Greenmarket<\/a> will also be going until 3 p.m., with a smorgasbord of locally-sourced fruit, vegetables, cheeses, baked goods and other tasty stuff to offer. I should probably chime in with mention of that most American of Independence Day staples, apple pie&#8211;there&#8217;ll be a bit of that, too.<\/p>\n<p>From all of us here at the <a title=\"The New York Botanical Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a>, here&#8217;s to a safe, happy, and delicious Independence Day. May your grill-outs be grand and your burgers brilliant. Or your tofu dogs terrific, if that&#8217;s more your style!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Large-flowered-Climbing-rose-Rosa-Fourth-of-July-04.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"26006\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/07\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-flowering-fireworks\/attachment\/large-flowered-climbing-rose-rosa-fourth-of-july-04\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Large-flowered-Climbing-rose-Rosa-Fourth-of-July-04.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,3757\" 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;1337765763&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rosa &#8216;Fourth of July&#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Large-flowered-Climbing-rose-Rosa-Fourth-of-July-04-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Large-flowered-Climbing-rose-Rosa-Fourth-of-July-04-681x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26006\" title=\"Rosa 'Fourth of July'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Large-flowered-Climbing-rose-Rosa-Fourth-of-July-04-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Large-flowered-Climbing-rose-Rosa-Fourth-of-July-04-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Large-flowered-Climbing-rose-Rosa-Fourth-of-July-04-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Large-flowered-Climbing-rose-Rosa-Fourth-of-July-04.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Rosa<\/em> &#8216;Fourth of July&#8217; &#8212; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s to a brilliant Independence Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":26006,"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":[752,2626,1512,1258,4640],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Large-flowered-Climbing-rose-Rosa-Fourth-of-July-04.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-6Lr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005"}],"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=26005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26017,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005\/revisions\/26017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}