{"id":26271,"date":"2012-07-13T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=26271"},"modified":"2012-07-11T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T20:15:57","slug":"morning-eye-candy-maggie-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/07\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-maggie-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Maggie Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I posted the <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/07\/around-the-garden\/ray-davies-takes-the-stage-finally\/\">relieving conclusion<\/a> of the <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/06\/exhibit-news\/monets-garden\/the-kinks-play-giverny\/\">&#8216;Ray Davies&#8217; saga<\/a>, commenter Gene mentioned that another pond-dweller, this time a lotus, shared its name with yet another rock star&#8211;<a title=\"Maggie Bell -- Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maggie_Bell\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish singer Maggie Bell<\/a>.\u00a0<em><\/em>For those who didn&#8217;t catch the exchange, I dove in and found what I could of <em>Nelumbo <\/em>&#8216;Maggie Bell Slocum&#8217;, dubbed not for a rocker, but someone far more horticultural.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Maggie Bell Slocum&#8217; was so named for the second wife of prolific water lily and lotus hybridizer Perry D. Slocum, a New Yorker and a long-lived icon in the pond plant world. This one still has stage presence, though, with or without the rock pedigree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Nelumbo-Maggie-Belle-Slocum-06.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"26272\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/07\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-maggie-bell\/attachment\/mec-nelumbo-maggie-belle-slocum-06\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Nelumbo-Maggie-Belle-Slocum-06.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,2254\" 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;1341305928&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nelumbo &#8216;Maggie Belle Slocum&#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Nelumbo-Maggie-Belle-Slocum-06-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Nelumbo-Maggie-Belle-Slocum-06-681x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26272\" title=\"Nelumbo 'Maggie Belle Slocum'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Nelumbo-Maggie-Belle-Slocum-06-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Nelumbo-Maggie-Belle-Slocum-06-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Nelumbo-Maggie-Belle-Slocum-06-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Nelumbo-Maggie-Belle-Slocum-06.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nelumbo<\/em> &#8216;Maggie Belle Slocum&#8217; &#8212; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another rock star in the water lily pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":26272,"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":[31,2648,1512,2649,2581,2625,4640],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MEC-Nelumbo-Maggie-Belle-Slocum-06.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-6PJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26271"}],"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=26271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26274,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26271\/revisions\/26274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}