{"id":10279,"date":"2016-05-03T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10279"},"modified":"2016-05-07T19:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T00:21:25","slug":"tradescantia-spiderwort-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10279","title":{"rendered":"<em>Tradescantia<\/em> (Spiderwort)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10281\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_20160503_125164.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10281\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10281\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_20160503_125164-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Tradescantia (Spiderwort)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10281\" data-wp-pid=\"10281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_20160503_125164-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_20160503_125164-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_20160503_125164-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_20160503_125164-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_20160503_125164-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img_20160503_125164.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tradescantia<\/em> (Spiderwort)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The spiderwort (<em>Tradescantia<\/em>) is starting to bloom. This is a great plant to put in your garden if you want something that blooms well into the summer, is very tough and hardy, and that won&#8217;t run wild as many tough and hardy perennials seem to do. This will spread but slowly enough that it&#8217;s easy to keep up with. It&#8217;s also lovely both in and out of flower, although it&#8217;s the deep blue (or sometimes pink or purple) flowers that are its real attraction. These are the first flowers we have so far and this plant is in a particularly warm place, right by the west side of our house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spiderwort (Tradescantia) is starting to bloom. This is a great plant to put in your garden if you want something that blooms well into the summer, is very tough and hardy, and that won&#8217;t run wild as many tough and hardy perennials seem to do. This will spread but slowly enough that it&#8217;s easy &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10283,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions\/10283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}