{"id":52630,"date":"2016-03-31T10:22:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=52630"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:22:04","slug":"morning-eye-candy-all-in-a-whirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-all-in-a-whirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: All in a Whirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a whirlwind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/plants\/cherries.php\">cherry blossoms<\/a> at the Garden this week, with our Japanese cherries, plums, and apricots going from the quiet of winter to the full bloom of spring in just a handful of days. They&#8217;re currently at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/cherry-tracker\/index.php\">90% of the way to peak bloom<\/a>, which means this weekend is likely your last chance to see them in all their seasonal splendor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Prunus-pendula-var.-ascendens-16.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"52631\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-all-in-a-whirl\/attachment\/prunus-pendula-var-ascendens-16\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Prunus-pendula-var.-ascendens-16.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1459248676&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Prunus pendula var. ascendens 16\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Prunus-pendula-var.-ascendens-16-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Prunus-pendula-var.-ascendens-16-1024x683.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-52631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Prunus-pendula-var.-ascendens-16-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Prunus pendula var. ascendens 16\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Prunus-pendula-var.-ascendens-16-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Prunus-pendula-var.-ascendens-16-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Prunus-pendula-var.-ascendens-16.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Higan cherry (<em>Prunus pendula<\/em> var. ascendens) near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/rock-garden\/index.php\">Rock Garden<\/a> \u2013 Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a whirlwind of cherry blossoms at the Garden this week, with our Japanese cherries, plums, and apricots going from the quiet of winter to the full bloom of spring in just a handful of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":52631,"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":[146],"tags":[2325,1396,4353,4887,1512,4627,192],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Prunus-pendula-var.-ascendens-16.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-dGS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52630"}],"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=52630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52632,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52630\/revisions\/52632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}