{"id":14295,"date":"2018-05-01T18:44:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14295"},"modified":"2018-05-07T07:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T12:07:48","slug":"lily-of-the-valley-convallaria-majalis-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14295","title":{"rendered":"Lily of the Valley (<em>Convallaria majalis<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14297\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180501_152731.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14297\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180501_152731-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14297\" data-wp-pid=\"14297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180501_152731-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180501_152731-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180501_152731-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180501_152731-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180501_152731-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/img_20180501_152731.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily of the Valley (<em>Convallaria majalis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The lily of the valley (<em>Convallaria majalis<\/em>) is starting to bloom. This is a beautiful little plant and quite tough. It does take quite some time to get established and it&#8217;s fairly expensive to buy but it&#8217;s worth having. When we lived in our old house, we dug up a bunch (with permission) from a yard that was being bulldozed in order to widen a road. There were places it was growing up through asphalt. One thing about it, though, is that it seems to want to &#x2018;move&#x2019; through the garden. That is, as it expands in one direction, it dies off where it was. So we have this mass of lily of the valley but as a unit, the whole mass is moving. In our case, it&#8217;s moving out into the yard and leaving an empty space behind. I&#8217;m not sure how to reverse that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) is starting to bloom. This is a beautiful little plant and quite tough. It does take quite some time to get established and it&#8217;s fairly expensive to buy but it&#8217;s worth having. When we lived in our old house, we dug up a bunch (with permission) from a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14295\">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":[638,637,28,636,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295"}],"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=14295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14298,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}