{"id":17749,"date":"2019-10-01T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T22:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17749"},"modified":"2019-10-05T21:46:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T01:46:40","slug":"crataegus-viridis-winter-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17749","title":{"rendered":"<em>Crataegus viridis<\/em> \u2018Winter King\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17751\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191001_170144.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17751\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191001_170144-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Crataegus viridis \u2018Winter King\u2019\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17751\" data-wp-pid=\"17751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191001_170144-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191001_170144-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191001_170144-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191001_170144-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191001_170144-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191001_170144.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Crataegus viridis<\/em> \u2018Winter King\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I got rid of the nearly dead Colorado blue spruce (<em>Picea pungens<\/em>) in our front yard, we wanted to replace it with something small but with a little more interest. We decided on a hawthorn and last week I ordered this <em>Crataegus viridis<\/em> &#x2018;Winter King&#x2019; and it was planted yesterday. The leaves are a little dry but it seems pretty healthy and I&#8217;m looking forward to the white blossoms in the spring as well as the fruit that you can see is on it now. The green hawthorn is more disease resistant than most hawthorns and &#x2018;Winter King&#x2019; was selected, among other reasons, for that reason. This variety is also &#x201c;noted for its profuse bloom of flowers, larger fruits, silvery-barked stems and more attractive fall color (purple and scarlet).&#x201d;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got rid of the nearly dead Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens) in our front yard, we wanted to replace it with something small but with a little more interest. We decided on a hawthorn and last week I ordered this Crataegus viridis &#x2018;Winter King&#x2019; and it was planted yesterday. The leaves are a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17749\">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":[2027,2026,2029,1637,2031,2030,32,460,2028],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17749"}],"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=17749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17753,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17749\/revisions\/17753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}