{"id":23673,"date":"2024-05-10T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23673"},"modified":"2024-06-02T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T13:13:22","slug":"tradescantia-virginiana-spiderwort-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23673","title":{"rendered":"<em>Tradescantia virginiana<\/em> (Spiderwort)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23675\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_20240510_016147.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23675\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_20240510_016147-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Tradescantia virginiana (Spiderwort)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_20240510_016147-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_20240510_016147-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_20240510_016147-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_20240510_016147-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_20240510_016147.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tradescantia virginiana<\/em> (Spiderwort)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is one of my favorite perennials. It&#8217;s commonly known as spiderwort and we have quite a few of them growing around the garden. There are varieties with lighter, more yellow leaves. There are varieties with pinker (less purple) flowers. I&#8217;ve even seen one with white flowers but so far haven&#8217;t found that one for sale anywhere. I&#8217;d definitely get one if I did. Each individual flower lasts only a short time but there are so many of them, the plant is constantly in bloom for a good while. This one is growing on our back patio and I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s even in a container. I think it was in a plastic grocery bag and got left there and now you&#8217;d think it was in the ground, it&#8217;s so happy. It probably should be moved into the ground, but I hat to mess with a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorite perennials. It&#8217;s commonly known as spiderwort and we have quite a few of them growing around the garden. There are varieties with lighter, more yellow leaves. There are varieties with pinker (less purple) flowers. I&#8217;ve even seen one with white flowers but so far haven&#8217;t found that one for &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23673\">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":[2452,46,64,65,664],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673"}],"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=23673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23678,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23673\/revisions\/23678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}