{"id":22665,"date":"2023-04-08T15:57:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T20:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22665"},"modified":"2023-04-27T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:02:43","slug":"mertensia-virginica-virginia-pink-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22665","title":{"rendered":"<em>Mertensia virginica<\/em> (Virginia \u2018Pink\u2019 Bells)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22667\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230408_007128.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22667\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230408_007128-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Mertensia virginica (Virginia \u2018Pink\u2019 Bells)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230408_007128-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230408_007128-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230408_007128-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230408_007128-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230408_007128.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mertensia virginica<\/em> (Virginia \u2018Pink\u2019 Bells)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy, Dorothy, and I went out to enjoy the bluebells (<em>Mertensia virginica<\/em>) today. They were pretty much at their peak and it was really lovely. Although they are called bluebells and that&#8217;s the predominate color, the buds generally start out being pink or purple and then the flowers turn blue as they open. We found a handful of them, however, that never made the switch, so we dubbed these Virginia &#x2018;Pink&#x2019; Bells. There were also trout lilies (Erythronium americanum) and many, many spring beauties (Claytonia virginica), as well as yellow &#x2018;violets&#x2019; (<em>Viola pubescens<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy, Dorothy, and I went out to enjoy the bluebells (Mertensia virginica) today. They were pretty much at their peak and it was really lovely. Although they are called bluebells and that&#8217;s the predominate color, the buds generally start out being pink or purple and then the flowers turn blue as they open. We found &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22665\">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":[2338,2336,2335,107,479,478,2337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22665"}],"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=22665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22669,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22665\/revisions\/22669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}