{"id":19009,"date":"2020-05-28T19:26:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19009"},"modified":"2020-06-02T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T19:39:45","slug":"kousa-dogwood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19009","title":{"rendered":"Kousa Dogwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19011\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200528_176227.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19011\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200528_176227-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Kousa Dogwood\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200528_176227-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200528_176227-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200528_176227-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200528_176227-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200528_176227.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kousa Dogwood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s kousa dogwood (<em>Cornus kousa<\/em>) time in the neighborhood. These trees bloom later than the native flowering dogwood (<em>Cornus florida<\/em>) and in general have fewer problems here. They make quite handsome trees of a good size for a suburban yard. They flowers are followed by interesting fruit so they have two seasons of interest, which is nice. They also have interesting bark. The main thing, though, is that they aren&#8217;t killed by dogwood anthracnose, which is pretty hard on the <em>C. florida<\/em> trees. <em>C. kousa<\/em> is also a bit hardier, although that&#8217;s not a real issue here. But the disease problem really is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) time in the neighborhood. These trees bloom later than the native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) and in general have fewer problems here. They make quite handsome trees of a good size for a suburban yard. They flowers are followed by interesting fruit so they have two seasons of interest, which &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19009\">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":[655,2417,654,576,2416,1674,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009"}],"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=19009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19012,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009\/revisions\/19012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}