{"id":1134,"date":"2012-06-13T23:55:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T04:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2012-06-14T06:04:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T11:04:20","slug":"gooseneck-loosestrife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Gooseneck Loosestrife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1136\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120613_038029.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1136\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120613_038029-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Lysimachia clethroides\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Lysimachia clethroides&lt;\/em&gt;\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120613_038029-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120613_038029-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120613_038029-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120613_038029-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img_20120613_038029.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lysimachia clethroides<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Lysimachia clethroides<\/em>, better known as gooseneck loosestrife, is described in one plant catalog as &#x201c;vigorous to the point of invasiveness.&#x201d; That&#8217;s actually a little bit of an understatement. At our old house we had this and St. John&#8217;s wort growing together just outside our front gate. Cathy thought it would be interesting to see which would do better. I was constantly pulling this up to give good old St. John a fighting chance. We have it in a few places in out new yard. Cathy actually dug some up this year, not to replant it but to make room for something else. It doesn&#8217;t like to share its space and will basically choke out anything and everything else. But it does have these elegant little flower spikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lysimachia clethroides, better known as gooseneck loosestrife, is described in one plant catalog as &#x201c;vigorous to the point of invasiveness.&#x201d; That&#8217;s actually a little bit of an understatement. At our old house we had this and St. John&#8217;s wort growing together just outside our front gate. Cathy thought it would be interesting to see which &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1134\">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\/1134"}],"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=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}