{"id":16753,"date":"2019-04-02T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16753"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:19:32","slug":"scilla-siberica-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16753","title":{"rendered":"<em>Scilla siberica<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16756\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190402_163571.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16756\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190402_163571-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Scilla siberica\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16756\" data-wp-pid=\"16756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190402_163571-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190402_163571-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190402_163571-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190402_163571-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190402_163571-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/img_20190402_163571.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Scilla siberica<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>These little flowers, <em>Scilla siberica<\/em> (Siberian squill) are similar to the blue <em>Chionodoxa forbesii<\/em> (glory of the snow) that I photographed a few days ago but can be differentiated by their downward facing appearance. They are also deeper blue, in general. In my yard they bloom just a little later, but not much. These are in a bed right by the driveway so I get to see them every time I leave or get home, which is nice. <em>S. siberica<\/em> is native to southern Russia and is hardy up to USDA Zone 2.<\/p>\n<p>I also have some <em>Scilla mischtschenkoana<\/em>, (commonly called simply squill) the flowers of which are almost white with just a hint of blue. They are native to northern Iran and the Caucasus and not quite as hardy as <em>S. siberica<\/em> but still plenty hardy for us here. I really should mark where all my spring ephemerals are and plant more around them this fall. I&#8217;m not sure I could ever have too many of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These little flowers, Scilla siberica (Siberian squill) are similar to the blue Chionodoxa forbesii (glory of the snow) that I photographed a few days ago but can be differentiated by their downward facing appearance. They are also deeper blue, in general. In my yard they bloom just a little later, but not much. These are &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16753\">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":[110,550,1018,548,594,479,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753"}],"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=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16765,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions\/16765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}