{"id":3414,"date":"2011-10-27T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T09:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2011-10-27T23:27:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T09:27:14","slug":"our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=3414","title":{"rendered":"Our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after we arrived the orchids began to bloom, and have not stopped since<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110909-orchid1.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110909-orchid2.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Royal Poinsiana<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110909-poinsiana-cluster.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110909-poinsiana2.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110909-poinsiana1.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When we moved in there was a small wild avocado tree. Experienced gardeners told me to cut it down and plant a &#8220;good one&#8221; in it&#8217;s place. They said wild avos never have big fruit, but big seeds, and sometimes are bitter. The tree was so pretty and I couldn&#8217;t cut it down&#8230; While we were in CA we already saw it had big and good fruits, but this year it has (had) about 200 avocados, they  are still not ripe, but I keep picking them, and after about 10 days they ripen, we eat at least one a day, and can&#8217;t wait for the tree-ripened ones. Oh, and I weighed a few that I picked&#8230; none under 300g some were close to a pound!<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110910-avo.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Plumeria<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110910-plumeria.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\nBananas coming up soon&#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110912-banana.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a collard green. I got it as a cabbage and it took me a long time to realize it would never make a head&#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110912-cabage.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Croutons<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110912-crouton1.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110912-crouton2.jpg' height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prince Kuhio Vines now cover front and back fence<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110912-kuhio.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And we all love our lime tree<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/6\/4\/web\/110912-limes.jpg' height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after we arrived the orchids began to bloom, and have not stopped since Royal Poinsiana When we moved in there was a small wild avocado tree. Experienced gardeners told me to cut it down and plant a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}