{"id":289,"date":"2008-06-24T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2008-06-24T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T15:02:00","slug":"im-no-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m no expert&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple months, when I post photos of things growing in my yard and gardens, I often have questions about gardening in the comments.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGEIcZqW3jI\/AAAAAAAABzQ\/Jvks6c0r7gY\/s1600-h\/threadleaf)6_24.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGEIcZqW3jI\/AAAAAAAABzQ\/Jvks6c0r7gY\/threadleaf)6_24.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215459127489650226\" \/><\/a>I am not a professional by any means.  I have worked at a friend&#8217;s plant nursery for 12 years and I&#8217;ve been gardening for about 20 years.  I read a lot about plants and growing them and I have made enough mistakes to provide a lifetime of learning. <a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGEIcHbu5CI\/AAAAAAAABzA\/ixO3LDHLXCo\/s1600-h\/primrose06_24.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGEIcHbu5CI\/AAAAAAAABzA\/ixO3LDHLXCo\/primrose06_24.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215459122596471842\" \/><\/a>I am not sure how this will turn out, but I am willing to try to answer any gardening questions that you leave in the comments.  If I don&#8217;t know the answer, I will try to find it, or direct you to a place where you can get more information.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGEIcbFq2DI\/AAAAAAAABzI\/J-V62iWAEcA\/s1600-h\/species_06_24.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SGEIcbFq2DI\/AAAAAAAABzI\/J-V62iWAEcA\/species_06_24.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215459127872641074\" \/><\/a>As Clint Eastwood once sort of said, a gardener has to know their limitations, and I certainly know mine.  I am in Upstate NY &#8211; zone 5 in plant hardiness, so if you have a question about growing succulents in Arizona or cannas in Florida, I am not your girl.  I also don&#8217;t know much of anything about roses.  And I have a feeling that the questions asked might highlight some other areas of ignorance which I will will be happy to share with all of you.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; ask away and we will see if I know as much as I think I do, or if I will slink off into a corner in ignominious defeat.  I bet you just can&#8217;t wait to find out which it will be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple months, when I post photos of things growing in my yard and gardens, I often have questions about gardening in the comments.I am not a professional by any means. I have worked at a friend&#8217;s plant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[28],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}