{"id":16435,"date":"2019-01-27T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T18:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16435"},"modified":"2019-01-29T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:07:08","slug":"hamamelis-witch-hazel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16435","title":{"rendered":"<em>Hamamelis<\/em> (Witch Hazel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16437\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20190127_162149.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16437\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20190127_162149-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Hamamelis (Witch Hazel)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16437\" data-wp-pid=\"16437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20190127_162149-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20190127_162149-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20190127_162149-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20190127_162149-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20190127_162149-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20190127_162149.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hamamelis<\/em> (Witch Hazel)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of witch hazel (<em>Hamamelis<\/em> species). They&#8217;re small trees well suited to the suburban landscape and wonder of wonder, they bloom in mid-winter! Many years ago my father, Cathy, and I went to Brookside Gardens in Wheaton Regional Park in February and I remember falling in love with witch hazel at that time. Now whenever I see them in bloom, I remember my dad and remind myself that this is a tree I want to plant in my yard. Now that I have a space in the front yard that needs a small tree, this may be the spring when one gets planted. There are varieties with red, orange, and yellow flowers and I think all of them are terrific. The yellow, perhaps, stands out as being the brightest but they&#8217;re all worth the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of witch hazel (Hamamelis species). They&#8217;re small trees well suited to the suburban landscape and wonder of wonder, they bloom in mid-winter! Many years ago my father, Cathy, and I went to Brookside Gardens in Wheaton Regional Park in February and I remember falling in love with witch hazel at that &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16435\">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":[29,28,1507,205,1509,460,160,324,1508,1506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435"}],"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=16435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16438,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435\/revisions\/16438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}