{"id":998,"date":"2016-09-25T18:11:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T08:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=998"},"modified":"2017-01-29T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T10:53:13","slug":"spring-flowering-crab-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Spring flowering &#8211; Crab Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring seems to have started slowly here at Shibui Bonsai. Lots of rain keeping temps a little lower than usual but the trees have responded to the warmth and started to grow.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of my one and only crab apple bonsai taken today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1071\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1071\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crabapple-flower-2016-9-2-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crabapple-flower-2016-9-2-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crabapple-flower-2016-9-2-768x679.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crabapple-flower-2016-9-2-1024x905.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crabapple-flower-2016-9-2-339x300.jpg 339w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/crabapple-flower-2016-9-2.jpg 1513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">crab apple in flower &#8211; spring 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is not actually a very good bonsai usually but when it flowers in spring the display draws the eyes away from any other problems.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers in this variety are followed by tiny apples that eventually mature to yellow fruit about 6mm diameter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1072\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1072\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Crabapple-1-2011-02-fruit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Crabapple-1-2011-02-fruit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Crabapple-1-2011-02-fruit-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Crabapple-1-2011-02-fruit.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">crabapple fruit<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring seems to have started slowly here at Shibui Bonsai. Lots of rain keeping temps a little lower than usual but the trees have responded to the warmth and started to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}