{"id":18891,"date":"2020-05-04T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18891"},"modified":"2020-05-09T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T23:41:19","slug":"ornithogalum-umbellatum-star-of-bethlehem-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18891","title":{"rendered":"<em>Ornithogalum umbellatum<\/em> (Star of Bethlehem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18893\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200504_175645.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18893\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200504_175645-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Ornithogalum umbellatum&lt;\/em&gt; (Star of Bethlehem)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200504_175645-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200504_175645-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200504_175645-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200504_175645-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200504_175645.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ornithogalum umbellatum<\/em> (Star of Bethlehem)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Star of Bethlehem (<em>Ornithogalum umbellatum<\/em>) is a pretty, little, but invasive bulbous plant native to Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. It&#8217;s coming up in our back yard and we really should do something about it, although it&#8217;s hard to want to pull out something as pretty as this. I&#8217;m not sure where it came from as we only have it growing in our lawn and not in any of our garden beds. This time of year they just appear in the lawn. Our mower is out of commission until I get a new carburetor so the grass is getting long but once that&#8217;s running again, these will be mowed along with the grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) is a pretty, little, but invasive bulbous plant native to Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. It&#8217;s coming up in our back yard and we really should do something about it, although it&#8217;s hard to want to pull out something as pretty as this. I&#8217;m not sure where &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18891\">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":[1604,1296,1674,2380,2379,2381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18891"}],"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=18891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18897,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18891\/revisions\/18897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}