{"id":17657,"date":"2019-09-13T23:24:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T03:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17657"},"modified":"2019-09-14T19:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T23:58:42","slug":"african-violets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17657","title":{"rendered":"African Violets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17659\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190913_169712.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17659\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190913_169712-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"African Violets\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17659\" data-wp-pid=\"17659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190913_169712-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190913_169712-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190913_169712-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190913_169712-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190913_169712-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_20190913_169712.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">African Violets<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had mixed success with houseplants over the years. When we&#8217;re not too busy, we can do reasonably well and houseplants thrive. When we&#8217;re busier, anything not particularly resilient is in pretty significant peril. Lately we&#8217;ve done reasonably and we have two African violet plants, cultivars of <em>Saintpaulia ionantha<\/em>, that arew doing well and blooming. We also have a iddle leaf fig (<em>Ficus lyrata<\/em>) that Dorothy started by rooting a leaf. It&#8217;s now about 6 feet tall and seems quite happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had mixed success with houseplants over the years. When we&#8217;re not too busy, we can do reasonably well and houseplants thrive. When we&#8217;re busier, anything not particularly resilient is in pretty significant peril. Lately we&#8217;ve done reasonably and we have two African violet plants, cultivars of Saintpaulia ionantha, that arew doing well and blooming. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17657\">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":[1967,233,46,1969,1968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657"}],"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=17657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17660,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17657\/revisions\/17660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}