{"id":19641,"date":"2020-10-08T12:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19641"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T21:44:21","slug":"19641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19641","title":{"rendered":"<em>Persicaria virginiana<\/em> \u2018Painter\u2019s Palette\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19643\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201008_179011.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19643\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201008_179011-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Persicaria virginiana \u2018Painter\u2019s Palette\u2019 \" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201008_179011-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201008_179011-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201008_179011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201008_179011-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201008_179011.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Persicaria virginiana<\/em> \u2018Painter\u2019s Palette\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really recommend growing painter&#8217;s palette (<em>Persicaria virginiana<\/em>) unless you have a lot of space and want a natural garden. It has a tendency to spread and is a bit of work to control. We have more than we need and most of the year I&#8217;m just about ready to pull it up. This is the time of year I don&#8217;t mind it quite so much. There isn&#8217;t a lot else in bloom and it provides some color in the border with it&#8217;s tiny, red flowers on wispy stalks. We have a lot of it mixed with <em>Verbena bonariensis<\/em> in the large, central bed in our front garden and the two of them together are pretty nice. The foliage is also interesting, with green alternating with a very pale green and with a reddish, V shape stripe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really recommend growing painter&#8217;s palette (Persicaria virginiana) unless you have a lot of space and want a natural garden. It has a tendency to spread and is a bit of work to control. We have more than we need and most of the year I&#8217;m just about ready to pull it up. This &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19641\">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":[1018,1654,2632,32,1019,1021,1020],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641"}],"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=19641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19645,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641\/revisions\/19645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}