{"id":22734,"date":"2023-05-07T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T21:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22734"},"modified":"2023-05-27T04:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T09:32:05","slug":"cornus-kousa-kousa-dogwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22734","title":{"rendered":"<em>Cornus kousa<\/em> (Kousa Dogwood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22736\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_20230507_007824.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22736\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_20230507_007824-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Cornus kousa (Kousa Dogwood)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_20230507_007824-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_20230507_007824-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_20230507_007824-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_20230507_007824-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/img_20230507_007824.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Cornus kousa<\/em> (Kousa Dogwood)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post, we went to the National Arboretum. The main purpose of the trip was to see the rose species in bloom and we enjoyed that. We also walked through the National Herb Garden. We skipped the Bonsai this time, because it was fairly crowded. We walked through the azalea collection and to the top of Mount Hamilton. Sadly the boxwood and peony section was closed for pest control. We drove to the far corner of the arboretum and walked through the dogwood collection. There was quite a varied collection and I took some good notes (in the form of photographs of both trees and tags). This one, a standard kousa dogwood (<em>Cornus kousa<\/em>) is a lovely example of the species and I think it would make an excellent puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post, we went to the National Arboretum. The main purpose of the trip was to see the rose species in bloom and we enjoyed that. We also walked through the National Herb Garden. We skipped the Bonsai this time, because it was fairly crowded. We walked through the azalea collection and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22734\">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":[655,2417,654,1637,2416],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734"}],"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=22734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22737,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734\/revisions\/22737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}