{"id":1169,"date":"2009-03-12T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T21:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/03\/12\/1169\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T21:42:14","slug":"an-underwhelming-quince-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/an-underwhelming-quince-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"An underwhelming quince tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/3349328315\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3624\/3349328315_f53721473f_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/3349328315\/\">An underwhelming quince tree<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some time ago, I ordered four fruit trees from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dobies.co.uk\/\">Dobies of Devon<\/a>: a medlar, a greengage, a damson and a quince.<\/p>\n<p>The trees arrived yesterday, so I had to plant them hurriedly before the driving lesson because they arrived without any soil at all around their root, and I wasn&#8217;t sure how long they&#8217;d survive like that in the humid Scottish spring.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the trees looked absolutely fine with lots of branches, but the quince is odd-looking.<\/p>\n<p>It has nicely developed roots just like the other trees, but it has no branches at all &ndash; just look at the photo.<\/p>\n<p>How did it come to look like this, and will it really grow branches on its own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An underwhelming quince tree Originally uploaded by viralbus Some time ago, I ordered four fruit trees from Dobies of Devon: a medlar, a greengage, a damson and a quince. The trees arrived yesterday, so I had to plant them hurriedly before the driving lesson because they arrived without any soil at all around their root, and I wasn&#8217;t sure how long they&#8217;d survive like that in the humid Scottish spring. Three of the trees looked absolutely fine with lots of branches, but the quince is odd-looking. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}