{"id":18828,"date":"2020-04-20T17:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18828"},"modified":"2020-04-29T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:00:23","slug":"flowering-dogwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18828","title":{"rendered":"Flowering Dogwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18829\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200420_175375.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18829\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200420_175375-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Flowering Dogwood\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200420_175375-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200420_175375-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200420_175375-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200420_175375-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200420_175375.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowering Dogwood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I recently had a photo of dogwood leaves (see <a href=\"?p=18770\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday, April 09, 2020<\/a>) which got some positive feedback. This is a flower on the same tree, a seedling that&#8217;s been growing on the edge of a flower bed in our back yard. I&#8217;m of two minds about this tree. On the one hand, any flowering tree has merit. On the other it&#8217;s not really where I&#8217;d want a flowering tree. There was a large silver maple (<em>Acer saccharinum<\/em>, not to be confused with <em>Acer saccharum<\/em>, the sugar maple) here but we had it cut down because it was large enough and leaning towards our house enough that we got very nervous every time there was a storm. We have a perennial bed where it once was, the this tree is right on the edge of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a photo of dogwood leaves (see Thursday, April 09, 2020) which got some positive feedback. This is a flower on the same tree, a seedling that&#8217;s been growing on the edge of a flower bed in our back yard. I&#8217;m of two minds about this tree. On the one hand, any flowering &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18828\">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":[655,656,654,2353,1637,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18828"}],"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=18828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18830,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18828\/revisions\/18830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}