{"id":493,"date":"2010-07-01T17:29:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/?p=493"},"modified":"2010-07-01T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:35:48","slug":"carlin-pea-in-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/2010\/07\/carlin-pea-in-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlin Pea in Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the year we published an article about <a title=\"About Carlin Peas\" href=\"http:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/2010\/04\/carlin-peas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlin peas<\/a> and Audrey from Lancashire decided she would have a go at growing some.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/carlin_pea_flower1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496 \" title=\"Carlin pea in flower\" src=\"http:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/carlin_pea_flower1.jpg\" alt=\"Carlin pea in flower\" width=\"360\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/carlin_pea_flower1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/carlin_pea_flower1-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carlin pea in flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shortly after Easter she planted a few Carlins which she had purchased from the grocer to eat.<\/p>\n<p>The peas were planted in spring, just the same way as one would plant any <a title=\"How to grow peas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/gardening\/basics\/techniques\/growfruitandveg_growingpeas1.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">other pea<\/a>. The resultant 6 foot  pea plants have just bloomed in the last week of June.<\/p>\n<p>The Carlin pea flower is small and delicate, typical of the pea family, with a pale, almost translucent lilac upper (banner) petals and a rich wine or burgundy wings and keel.<\/p>\n<p>The opposing leaves of the Carlin plant are almost heart shaped, unlike the oval shape of cultivated peas.<\/p>\n<p>Deep veining is prominent in both the flower and the leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Much like sweet peas, the Carlin pea does require something to grow up, as these plants in Lancashire have currently reached around 6 feet or more.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey is going to keep us posted on their progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the year we published an article about Carlin peas and Audrey from Lancashire decided she would have a go at growing some. Shortly after Easter she planted a few Carlins which she had purchased from the grocer to eat. The peas were planted in spring, just the same way as one would plant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,777],"tags":[1072,1079,963,1074,1755,1084,1081,632,237,1080,1076,1082,1073,159,1078,20,969,1077,800],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-featured","category-vegetables-fruit-and-veg","tag-audrey","tag-burgundy","tag-carlin-peas","tag-carlins","tag-flower","tag-grocer","tag-heart","tag-lancashire","tag-leaves","tag-oval-shape","tag-pea-family","tag-pea-flower","tag-pea-plants","tag-petals","tag-rich-wine","tag-sweet-pea","tag-sweet-peas","tag-upper-banner","tag-wings","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/author\/mogsy\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}