{"id":111884,"date":"2026-08-05T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111884\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:43:09","slug":"blossom-of-snow-a-starry-symbol-of-the-alps-makes-an-unusual-addition-to-rock-gardens-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/111884\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossom of snow: A starry symbol of the Alps makes an unusual addition to rock gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VF7LNUFLNFCXJPLSGAZCURFDI4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">If you\u2019re looking to plant <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/flowers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a rare flower<\/a> with a storied past that\u2019s had a well-known song written about it, edelweiss will check all your boxes.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TZEX3FXGVFE7HKZMPOR5KE57AU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">My mother grew up in northeastern Italy, just over the Austrian border near the Alps, where edelweiss grow wild along steep rocky ledges. When I was a child, she told me stories about the elusive white flowers, and about local legends of young men dying after climbing and falling from the cliffs while trying to pick edelweiss for their beloveds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re looking to plant a rare flower with a storied past that\u2019s had a well-known song written&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,111,35637,54656,1053],"class_list":["post-111884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps","tag-flowers","tag-gardening","tag-gardening-edelweiss","tag-lifestyle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117042256778474066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}