{"id":18597,"date":"2020-03-06T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18597"},"modified":"2020-03-09T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T23:46:13","slug":"seed-pods-hardy-hibiscus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18597","title":{"rendered":"Seed Pods, Hardy Hibiscus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18599\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200306_174371.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18599\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200306_174371-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Hibiscus moscheutos Seed Pods\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200306_174371-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200306_174371-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200306_174371-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200306_174371-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_20200306_174371.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hibiscus moscheutos<\/em> Seed Pods<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I stopped at Meadowside Nature Center on the way home today and walked down to the pond on the Pioneer Trail. There were a pair of geese on the pond and they paddled away from me as I approached. I got some pictures of these seed pods and wasn&#8217;t sure what they were. I&#8217;m pretty sure they belong to a hardy hibiscus (<em>Hibiscus moscheutos<\/em> sometimes called swamp rose mallow). They are lovely, I think. They look a lot like the seed pods on crape myrtle except they are on non-woody stems and are much larger. I walked up to another small catchment pond and startled a pair of mallards who flew off to the larger pond as I approached. It&#8217;s supposed to get cold tonight and tomorrow night but spring is pretty much around the corner, with forecasts of temperatures greater than 70&#xb0;F for Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped at Meadowside Nature Center on the way home today and walked down to the pond on the Pioneer Trail. There were a pair of geese on the pond and they paddled away from me as I approached. I got some pictures of these seed pods and wasn&#8217;t sure what they were. I&#8217;m pretty &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18597\">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":[2283,206,2282,981,2285,2284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597"}],"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=18597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18601,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597\/revisions\/18601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}