{"id":12939,"date":"2017-09-13T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T22:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12939"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:57:07","slug":"physostegia-virginiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12939","title":{"rendered":"<em>Physostegia virginiana<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12941\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170913_146600.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12941\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170913_146600-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Physostegia virginiana\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12941\" data-wp-pid=\"12941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170913_146600-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170913_146600-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170913_146600-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170913_146600-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170913_146600-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170913_146600.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Physostegia virginiana<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Physostegia virginiana<\/em>, otherwise known as obedient plant, is a North American native herbaceous perennial, hardy as far north as USDA zone 3. The Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder says that is it &#x201c;easily grown in average, moist, acidic, well-drained soils in full sun.&#x201d; It certainly is easily grown in our yard. They also mention that it tends to flop over &#x201c;in rich soils, too much shade or hot summer temperatures.&#x201d; I don&#8217;t know about the heat this summer but ours certainly did flop over this year. But that hasn&#8217;t prevented it from blooming very nicely, providing a welcome contrast with all the black-eyed Susans. The bees, particularly the carpenter bees, it seems, really love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Physostegia virginiana, otherwise known as obedient plant, is a North American native herbaceous perennial, hardy as far north as USDA zone 3. The Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder says that is it &#x201c;easily grown in average, moist, acidic, well-drained soils in full sun.&#x201d; It certainly is easily grown in our yard. They also mention &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12939\">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\/12939"}],"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=12939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12942,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions\/12942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}