{"id":17350,"date":"2012-06-14T12:33:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17350"},"modified":"2012-06-14T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:33:56","slug":"seed-time-the-best-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=17350","title":{"rendered":"Seed-time&#8230;the best time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am now in the middle of my fourth month at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas, NV and things are starting to really pick up! For months my coworker and I have quietly witnessed the desert come to life.\u00a0 The flowers, though they were sometimes few and far between, have come and gone.\u00a0 Normally I would say that the best part is over, but not this season!\u00a0 For me, a participant in the Seeds of Success program, spent flowers are an exciting sign.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s seed time here in the Mojave and I have been having a great time collecting native seed over the past couple weeks.\u00a0 Most recently we made a collection of <em>Fallugia paradoxa<\/em>, the Apache Plume.\u00a0 One of the most satisfying things is getting to pluck seed heads from a plant and say \u201cTwenty! Forty! Sixty!&#8230;One Hundred!\u201d\u00a0 Some collections are slower than others and at times the work can seem tedious, but collections like the <em>Fallugia<\/em> help keep the work balanced.\u00a0 I am looking forward to a little bit of scrambling over the next few weeks as we jump from one collection to another.\u00a0 After a long, patient wait, it\u2019s go time.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Clark<\/p>\n<p>Springs Preserve, Las Vegas, NV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now in the middle of my fourth month at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas, NV and things are starting to really pick up! For months my coworker and I have quietly witnessed the desert come to life.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=17350\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17450,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350\/revisions\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}