{"id":9659,"date":"2025-03-28T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9659"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:16:22","slug":"wild-azaleas-and-blueberries-2025-03-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/wild-azaleas-and-blueberries-2025-03-20.html","title":{"rendered":"Wild azaleas and blueberries 2025-03-20"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nDown the Not A Driveway, over and under the Hurricane Helene deadfalls,\r\nfollowing the dog pack, lies an acre of wild azaleas, plus wild blueberries.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Blondie,<\/a>\r\n
Blondie, Honeybun, Sky, River, over the deadfall into the wild azaleas<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nSome of these Rhododendron canescens<\/em> are already blooming.\r\nMany more are just budding.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Wild<\/a>\r\n
Wild azaleas, pine deadfall, and dog on Not A Driveway<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Wild<\/a>\r\n
Wild azaleas and loblolly pine cones<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Closeup<\/a>\r\n
Closeup red wild azaleas<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Wild<\/a>\r\n
Wild Blueberries<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Pink<\/a>\r\n
Pink wild azaleas<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Pale<\/a>\r\n
Pale wild azaleas<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Wild<\/a>\r\n
Wild azalea beneath oak deadfall<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Closeup<\/a>\r\n
Closeup wild azalea beneath oak deadfall<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“Here Spring was already busy about them: fronds pierced moss and mould,\r\n… small \ufb02owers were opening in the turf, birds were\r\nsinging. Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness.”\r\n
\r\n—Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit, The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien\r\n

\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Down the Not A Driveway, over and under the Hurricane Helene deadfalls, following the dog pack, lies an acre of wild azaleas, plus wild blueberries. Blondie, Honeybun, Sky, River, over the deadfall into the wild azaleas Some of these Rhododendron canescens are already blooming. Many more are just budding. Wild azaleas, pine deadfall, and dog […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2262,29,143,6,60,36],"tags":[3229,3233,2292,2770,440,297,3,23,3193,5,2,2760,166,1580,2810,2772,3063,548,3532],"class_list":["post-9659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blueberries","category-dogs","category-loblolly","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-plants","category-silviculture","tag-azaleas","tag-blondie","tag-blueberries-2","tag-dogs","tag-flowers","tag-forestry","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-honeybun","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-pines","tag-rhododendron-canescens","tag-river","tag-silviculture","tag-sky","tag-wild-azalea","tag-wild-blueberries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2vN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9660,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions\/9660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}