{"id":197,"date":"2007-04-23T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/04\/23\/plant-of-the-week-fritillaria-pallida\/"},"modified":"2007-04-23T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T13:12:03","slug":"plant-of-the-week-fritillaria-pallida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/04\/23\/plant-of-the-week-fritillaria-pallida\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant of the Week: Fritillaria pallida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fritillaries are a wonderful group of bulbous plants, mostly of very discreet charm, quite unlike their blowsy cousins, the tulips. <!--more-->The sole exception is <em>F imperialis<\/em>, the crown imperial, which resembles Elgar\u2019s march of that name. F pallida is a much softer, more delicate creature, more like his Sospiri. It can grow about half a metre tall and has wispy grey leaves and lovely pale straw-yellow nodding flowers which sadly only last a week or so.<\/p>\n<p>I once succeeded in associating it with its Iranian relative, <em>F persica,<\/em> with its sprays of black bells. But like most fritillaries, these both died in my care. I should be reported to the Fritillary Commission and banned from buying any more bulbs, at least until I retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fritillaries are a wonderful group of bulbous plants, mostly of very discreet charm, quite unlike their blowsy cousins, the tulips. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/04\/23\/plant-of-the-week-fritillaria-pallida\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}