{"id":14185,"date":"2018-04-09T18:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T23:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14185"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:21:53","slug":"scilla-siberica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14185","title":{"rendered":"<em>Scilla siberica<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14187\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180409_152071.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14187\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180409_152071-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Scilla siberica (Siberian squill)\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14187\" data-wp-pid=\"14187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180409_152071-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180409_152071-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180409_152071-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180409_152071-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180409_152071-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180409_152071.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Scilla siberica<\/em> (Siberian squill)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love this beautiful, little bulb. Along with the similar (and related) <em>Chionodoxa<\/em> (glory of the snow) species, it&#8217;s an early, generally blue-flowered bulb. It&#8217;s also a very welcome sign of spring. Not as early as the <em>Eranthis<\/em> or the <em>Galanthus<\/em> (snow drops, both of which start blooming here in February, it&#8217;s still a great thing to see coming up, especially when you have a late snow, as we did this year. <em>Scilla siberica<\/em>, commonly called Siberian squill, is native to Southern Russia and is hardy as far north as USDA Zone 2. Like <em>Chionodoxa<\/em>, it has small, mostly blue flowers but they are generally much more thoroughly blue. The other obvious difference is that they open facing downward while <em>Chionodoxa<\/em> flowers generally face up. If you don&#8217;t have any in your yard, I highly recommend them. Buy a bunch this fall and get them in the ground. You&#8217;ll be enjoying them for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this beautiful, little bulb. Along with the similar (and related) Chionodoxa (glory of the snow) species, it&#8217;s an early, generally blue-flowered bulb. It&#8217;s also a very welcome sign of spring. Not as early as the Eranthis or the Galanthus (snow drops, both of which start blooming here in February, it&#8217;s still a great &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14185\">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":[110,550,548,594,479,478,595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185"}],"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=14185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14188,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185\/revisions\/14188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}