{"id":709,"date":"2010-05-01T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T09:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2010-05-01T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T09:13:49","slug":"bleeding-heart-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/01\/bleeding-heart-flowers","title":{"rendered":"Bleeding Heart Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/25\/white-windflowers\">windflowers<\/a> in the last post are wilting away, unfortunately before I had a chance to re-visit them. Instead, the bleeding heart flowers are in full bloom &#8211; such is the cycle of life.<\/p>\n<p>The bleeding heart, also known as Venus&#8217;s car, Dutchman&#8217;s trousers, lyre flower or by their latin name <em>lamprocapnos spectabilis<\/em> is originally from Korea and north and western China, but it seems to do very well in almost any temperate climate, so it is a very popular garden plant.<\/p>\n<p>We simply let it grow and cut the wilted stalks short in the fall and they come back year after year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christiandoenges\/4563381101\/\" title=\"Bleeding Heart Flowers in a Row by Christian Doenges, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4563381101_6775291c1a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Bleeding Heart Flowers in a Row\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bleeding Heart Flowers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In order to take the photo, I mounted the camera on a tripod and used an insane amount of extension (over 50&nbsp;mm for a 70-200&nbsp;mm lens). Despite an aperture of f\/16, the depth of field is extremely shallow, about 2-3&nbsp;mm in my estimate. That, combined with the light wind that moves the flowers like swings on a playground, made it challenging to get sharp images.<\/p>\n<p>What really amazes me is how the lower white parts of the blossoms are textured. I had never noticed this with the real flowers before taking these pictures. Which just goes to show how photography can expand your awareness of the world. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The windflowers in the last post are wilting away, unfortunately before I had a chance to re-visit them. Instead, the bleeding heart flowers are in full bloom &#8211; such is the cycle of life. The bleeding heart, also known as Venus&#8217;s car, Dutchman&#8217;s trousers, lyre flower or by their latin name lamprocapnos spectabilis is originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[931,608,689,574,706,787],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-bleeding-heart","tag-flower","tag-macro","tag-photo","tag-pink","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}