{"id":12994,"date":"2017-09-24T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12994"},"modified":"2017-09-30T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T13:26:21","slug":"hardy-begonia-begonia-grandis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12994","title":{"rendered":"Hardy Begonia (<em>Begonia grandis<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12996\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170924_146919.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12996\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170924_146919-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Hardy Begonia (Begonia grandis)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12996\" data-wp-pid=\"12996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170924_146919-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170924_146919-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170924_146919-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170924_146919-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170924_146919-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170924_146919.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hardy Begonia (<em>Begonia grandis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Originally planted in a pot outside our front door, this hardy begonia (<em>Begonia grandis<\/em>) has been coming up around the front step every year since and getting a little larger each year. It isn&#8217;t what I&#8217;d call invasive, but it&#8217;s certainly found a spot where it is very happy. The leaves have wonderful, red veins and the flowers are a delicate pink. The male flowers have bright yellow stamens and the female flowers are pendulous and pink with less obvious yellow stigmas. Overall it&#8217;s less than two feet tall and very welcoming as we come home. The relatively cool and protected spot is probably important to its doing so well.<\/p>\n<p>As I was writing this I got to wondering where the name <em>Begonia<\/em> comes from. It is in honor of Michel B\u00e9gon (1638-1710), a French government official and avid plant collector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally planted in a pot outside our front door, this hardy begonia (Begonia grandis) has been coming up around the front step every year since and getting a little larger each year. It isn&#8217;t what I&#8217;d call invasive, but it&#8217;s certainly found a spot where it is very happy. The leaves have wonderful, red veins &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12994\">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":[208,29,209,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994"}],"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=12994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13000,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994\/revisions\/13000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}