{"id":17233,"date":"2019-06-28T18:09:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T22:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17233"},"modified":"2019-07-05T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T17:24:35","slug":"coneflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17233","title":{"rendered":"Coneflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17235\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190628_167054.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17235\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190628_167054-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17235\" data-wp-pid=\"17235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190628_167054-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190628_167054-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190628_167054-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190628_167054-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190628_167054-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190628_167054.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coneflower (<em>Echinacea purpurea<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are quite a few really amazing coneflower (<em>Echinacea purpurea<\/em>) varieties now and if I had the space and the time and the money, I&#8217;d consider a collection of the as one aspect of a large garden. They vary in color from the &#x201c;standard&#x201d; pinkish-purple bracts and with orange spikes, as seen here, to all sort of oranges, yellow, and darker purples. They flower shapes vary, as well, and they are all lovely. Sadly, there are enough plant-eating insects that enjoy them that they don&#8217;t often last in pristine condition. Photographing them in their prime means getting them when the flowers first open, because the bracts get holes in them almost immediately. Still, they provide color in a time when not a lot is blooming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are quite a few really amazing coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) varieties now and if I had the space and the time and the money, I&#8217;d consider a collection of the as one aspect of a large garden. They vary in color from the &#x201c;standard&#x201d; pinkish-purple bracts and with orange spikes, as seen here, to all &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17233\">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":[788,790,789,1018,1654,32,58,209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233"}],"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=17233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17238,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233\/revisions\/17238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}