{"id":14211,"date":"2018-04-14T09:53:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T14:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14211"},"modified":"2020-10-28T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:03:45","slug":"camellia-japonica-pink-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14211","title":{"rendered":"<em>Camellia japonica<\/em> \u2018Pink Perfection\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14213\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180414_152242.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14213\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180414_152242-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Camellia japonica \u2018Pink Perfection\u2019\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14213\" data-wp-pid=\"14213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180414_152242-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180414_152242-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180414_152242-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180414_152242-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180414_152242-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180414_152242.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Camellia japonica<\/em> \u2018Pink Perfection\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some things are worth waiting for. If they were not, we&#8217;d have a hard time planning for anything farther away than next week, I guess. Some things, like trees and to a lesser extent shrubs, take a while to be worth planting. In the spring of 2010, I planted a small <em>Camellia japonica<\/em> called \u2018Pink Perfection\u2019. It was small to begin with and struggled through the first couple years. I&#8217;ve lowered the pH of the soil around it, and that seems to have helped significantly. It bloomed a few times the first year but hasn&#8217;t bloomed since until now. Hopefully it is becoming well enough established that it will begin to grow and we&#8217;ll get more like this in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things are worth waiting for. If they were not, we&#8217;d have a hard time planning for anything farther away than next week, I guess. Some things, like trees and to a lesser extent shrubs, take a while to be worth planting. In the spring of 2010, I planted a small Camellia japonica called \u2018Pink &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14211\">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":[87,2286,2287,604,107,603,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211"}],"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=14211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14214,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211\/revisions\/14214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}