{"id":20826,"date":"2025-09-09T02:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/?p=20826"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:22:19","slug":"%e3%83%8b%e3%83%81%e3%83%8b%e3%83%81%e3%82%ab%e3%80%80day-long-blooms-can-live-for-days%e3%80%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/?p=20826","title":{"rendered":"Day-long Blooms Live for Days!\u3000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got this &#8220;thing&#8221; at a tiny thrift store months ago because of its mysterious existence, and I still don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s used for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5734-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5734-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20839\" style=\"width:637px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5734-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5734-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Recently I got some nichi-nichi-so, and at long last I think I&#8217;ve found a purpose of the thing&#8211;in my own sort of way, though.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5730.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5730-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nichi-nichi-so or a little Russian-sounding nichi-nichi-ka is one of few summer flowers.<br>Its English name is periwinkle and the flowers come in a variety of colors, blooming till autumn, but alack, they open and go in a day, making the fallen sets of five petals a sorry sight. <br>So I took off the lid of the mystery vessel, filled it with water and put some of the fallen flowers in it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5732.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5732.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5732.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kentoyama.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_5732-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been three days now and they look happy.<br>I don&#8217;t know what I learned from all this, but it made me very happy!<br>Still it would make me even happier if you could let me know what the vessel is for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this &#8220;thing&#8221; 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