{"id":6,"date":"2013-02-12T06:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T06:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2013-02-13T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T08:21:15","slug":"only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Evergreens = 12 months of color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green may not be the brightest color &#8230; but it&#8217;s the most practical option for landscape color spanning from January 1st to December 31st.\u00a0 As a general practice, I like to include at least 50% evergreen plant material when drawing landscape design plans.<\/p>\n<p>There are several options too, ranging from broadleaf evergreens like Camellia, to needle bearing conifers like Hemlock. Included here, are several types of evergreens I photographed this winter of 2013.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/shore_juniper_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/shore_juniper_600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/monkey_pz_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Monkey_Pz_600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/korean_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Korean_600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/giant_sequoia_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/giant_sequoia_600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/evergreen_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/evergreen_600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/deodar_gold_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/deodar_gold_600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/deodar_cone_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/deodar_cone_600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/cedar_blue_600\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cedar_blue_600-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green may not be the brightest color &#8230; but it&#8217;s the most practical option for landscape color spanning from January 1st to December 31st.\u00a0 As a general practice, I like<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/only-evergreens-offer-12-months-of-color\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evergreens = 12 months of color<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,2,56],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees","tag-design","tag-landscape","tag-tree","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}