{"id":396,"date":"2009-01-15T16:27:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/396"},"modified":"2009-01-15T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:30:33","slug":"tulip-festival-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/tulip-festival-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulip Festival Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MyOne of my favorite things about living in the northwest is the abundant supply of affordable, fresh flowers.\u00c2\u00a0 Even in the middle of winter…..\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I live a little over 1 hour south of Mt. Vernon, home to the annual Tulip Festival<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Jealous?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

In March, you can drive around Mt. Vernon and see acres and acres of daffodils. Tulips in April. Iris in May.<\/p>\n

I love the northwest.<\/em><\/p>\n

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While at Central Market (great place for natural foods) <\/em>Tuesday, I noticed a sign\u00c2\u00a0announcing the arrival of the Mt. Vernon hothouse tulips, just the day before! \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

And there they were…. rows of fresh cut tulips <\/em>in a rainbow of colors….\u00c2\u00a0 for only $4 per 5 stem bunch.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Prices get even lower when they start cutting in the fields.<\/p>\n

Obviously, I had to have three bunches. And aren’t they lovely?\u00c2\u00a0 Makes spring feel not so far away….<\/p>\n

Southwest has airfare on special from Phoenix to Seattle in April…………. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite things about living in the northwest is the abundant supply of affordable, fresh flowers.\u00c2\u00a0 Even in the middle of winter…..\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I live a little over 1 hour south of Mt. Vernon, home to the annual Tulip Festival.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Jealous?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In March, you can drive around Mt. Vernon and see acres and acres … Continue reading Tulip Festival Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}