{"id":11943,"date":"2017-03-11T12:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11943"},"modified":"2017-03-14T19:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:42:34","slug":"begonia-rex-cultorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11943","title":{"rendered":"<em>Begonia rex-cultorum<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11945\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170311_136613.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11945\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170311_136613-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Begonia rex-cultorum\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11945\" data-wp-pid=\"11945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170311_136613-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170311_136613-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170311_136613-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170311_136613-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170311_136613-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170311_136613.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Begonia rex-cultorum<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It got quite a bit colder after the rain we had yesterday and this morning it was quite chilly. We wanted to go out and because it&#8217;s felt like spring, we wanted to see some plants. That helped us decide to go to Johnson&#8217;s outside of Olney, where there is a greenhouse and both house plants and a few outdoor plants that it will be safe to put out soon. This is a Rex begonia, one of a great many cultivars developed specifically for their exotic leaf patterns. This one has a wonderful spiral that really caught my eye. The Rex begonias are only hardy in zones 10 to 12, so can&#8217;t be grown outdoors except in a container that comes in for the winter. They also need considerable humidity and indoors that&#8217;s a problem for those of us with forced air heating systems, which tend to dry the air in the house far too much. But it&#8217;s beautiful. If I ever had a greenhouse, this would be something I&#8217;d look at more seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It got quite a bit colder after the rain we had yesterday and this morning it was quite chilly. We wanted to go out and because it&#8217;s felt like spring, we wanted to see some plants. That helped us decide to go to Johnson&#8217;s outside of Olney, where there is a greenhouse and both house &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11943\">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\/11943"}],"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=11943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11948,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions\/11948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}