{"id":11222,"date":"2016-10-21T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2016-10-27T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T01:14:57","slug":"parthenocissus-quinquefolia-virginia-creeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11222","title":{"rendered":"<em>Parthenocissus quinquefolia<\/em> (Virginia creeper)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11224\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161021_132182.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11224\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161021_132182-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11224\" data-wp-pid=\"11224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161021_132182-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161021_132182-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161021_132182-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161021_132182-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161021_132182-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161021_132182.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Parthenocissus quinquefolia<\/em> (Virginia creeper)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Virginia creeper (<em>Parthenocissus quinquefolia<\/em>) turns a beautiful red in the autumn and that, along with the dark purple fruit make it a nice ornamental. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s because it is native and grows naturally all around the area but it doesn&#8217;t seem to be cultivated. Certainly not as much as it&#8217;s more upscale east Asian cousin, <em>Parthenocissus tricuspidata<\/em>, a.k.a. Boston ivy. They both give a wonderful fall display and perhaps the more maple like leaves of Boston ivy is in its favor. But Virginia creeper is a bit hardier (but they can both take significant cold). Anyway, it&#8217;s growing throughout the woods around my office and giving me some nice color to see out my window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) turns a beautiful red in the autumn and that, along with the dark purple fruit make it a nice ornamental. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s because it is native and grows naturally all around the area but it doesn&#8217;t seem to be cultivated. Certainly not as much as it&#8217;s more upscale &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11222\">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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222"}],"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=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11225,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions\/11225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}