{"id":17565,"date":"2019-08-25T15:11:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17565"},"modified":"2019-08-28T11:07:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:07:23","slug":"bird-of-paradise-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17565","title":{"rendered":"Bird of Paradise Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17567\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190825_169149.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17567\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190825_169149-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Bird of Paradise Flower\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17567\" data-wp-pid=\"17567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190825_169149-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190825_169149-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190825_169149-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190825_169149-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190825_169149-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_20190825_169149.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bird of Paradise Flower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy, Margaret, and I went to Brookside Gardens this afternoon. It was such a wonderfully beautiful day we were not surprised by the number of people there. Nevertheless, we were able to find a parking spot and wonder around the garden for a while. We often go there in the spring, when early flowers are in bloom. I would recommend that highly but this was a different experience. We rarely come in August because it&#8217;s so brutally hot. Today was in the mid-70s, though, and absolutely lovely. The summer flowering plants were at their best and we really enjoyed the gardens. The conservatory is always nice, of course, and this photo of a bird of paradise flower (<em>Strelitzia reginae<\/em>) was taken there. I&#8217;ve often thought about growing one of these but never got around to it. They are, apparently, fairly easy to grow, although they couldn&#8217;t take our winters and would need to come inside when it gets cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy, Margaret, and I went to Brookside Gardens this afternoon. It was such a wonderfully beautiful day we were not surprised by the number of people there. Nevertheless, we were able to find a parking spot and wonder around the garden for a while. We often go there in the spring, when early flowers are &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17565\">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":[1921,1654,58,1923,1922,737,1581],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565"}],"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=17565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17568,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions\/17568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}