{"id":21582,"date":"2022-01-09T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21582"},"modified":"2022-02-05T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T12:26:24","slug":"paperwhites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21582","title":{"rendered":"Paperwhites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21584\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20220109_000155.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21584\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20220109_000155-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Paperwhites (Narcissus tazetta)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20220109_000155-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20220109_000155-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20220109_000155-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20220109_000155-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/img_20220109_000155.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paperwhites (<em>Narcissus tazetta<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I bought Cathy some paperwhites and planted them in mid-December. They started growing almost immediately and have given us a wonderful display. I&#8217;m not particularly fond of the smell, but it&#8217;s a small price to pay. They really are lovely and at a time when flowers of any kind are quite welcome. They are a variety of <em>Narcissus tazetta<\/em>, which is quite cosmopolitan, with sub-species found native to Europe, through the middle east and into southeast Asia. In contrast to many bulbs which require a period of cold in order for them to bloom, paperwhites don&#8217;t need any special treatment. Simply plant them, keep them properly watered, watch and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought Cathy some paperwhites and planted them in mid-December. They started growing almost immediately and have given us a wonderful display. I&#8217;m not particularly fond of the smell, but it&#8217;s a small price to pay. They really are lovely and at a time when flowers of any kind are quite welcome. They are a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21582\">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":[550,3094,581,3095,3096,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582"}],"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=21582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21585,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions\/21585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}