{"id":14173,"date":"2018-04-06T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14173"},"modified":"2018-04-09T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:09:13","slug":"chionodoxa-forbesii-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14173","title":{"rendered":"<em>Chionodoxa forbesii<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14175\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180406_151858.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14175\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180406_151858-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Chionodoxa forbesii\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14175\" data-wp-pid=\"14175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180406_151858-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180406_151858-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180406_151858-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180406_151858-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180406_151858-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180406_151858.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chionodoxa forbesii<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve planted a fair amount of this around the yard but I&#8217;m not sure I could ever have too much of it. <em>Chionodoxa forbesii<\/em>, commonly called glory of the snow, is a beautiful, little early spring bulb. Although the daffodils have started blooming and they overlap with this, these are going to be done well before the daffodils. The Latin genus, <em>Chionodoxa<\/em>, comes from the Greek words <em>chion<\/em> meaning snow and <em>doxa<\/em> meaning glory. This reflects their very early flowering, often when snow is still on the ground. The specific epithet, <em>forbesii<\/em>, honors James Forbes (1773-1861), the British botanist who was employed as the gardener for the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve planted a fair amount of this around the yard but I&#8217;m not sure I could ever have too much of it. Chionodoxa forbesii, commonly called glory of the snow, is a beautiful, little early spring bulb. Although the daffodils have started blooming and they overlap with this, these are going to be done well &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14173\">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":[110,550,560,561,479,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173"}],"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=14173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14176,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions\/14176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}