{"id":5573,"date":"2014-04-10T16:39:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T21:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2014-04-14T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T01:41:22","slug":"chionodoxa-forbesii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5573","title":{"rendered":"<em>Chionodoxa forbesii<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5575\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_20140410_080645.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5575\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_20140410_080645-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Chionodoxa forbesii\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_20140410_080645-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_20140410_080645-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_20140410_080645-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_20140410_080645-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_20140410_080645.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chionodoxa forbesii<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The bulbs are up all over the yard and it&#8217;s wonderful. This is one of my favorites and I have a good bit of it. It&#8217;s <em>Chionodoxa forbesii<\/em> and it&#8217;s growing up through the pachysandra around an oak tree near the end of our driveway. I have a variety called &#x2018;Pink Giant&#x2019; growing nearby and it&#8217;s pretty, as well, but for some reason I don&#8217;t like it as much. Perhaps it&#8217;s because pink flowers are relatively so much more common, while blue flowers are a special treat.<\/p>\n<p>The blue in the flowers seems to vary from year to year. This year they seem a bit paler than they did last year. Not that I&#8217;ve compared photographs, though, so maybe that&#8217;s just my imagination. <em>Scilla<\/em> is certainly bluer than <em>Chionodoxa<\/em>. It&#8217;s also easier to pronounce. But I&#8217;ll take them both. I need to plant more, in fact. But that&#8217;s a job for October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bulbs are up all over the yard and it&#8217;s wonderful. This is one of my favorites and I have a good bit of it. It&#8217;s Chionodoxa forbesii and it&#8217;s growing up through the pachysandra around an oak tree near the end of our driveway. I have a variety called &#x2018;Pink Giant&#x2019; growing nearby and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5573\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573"}],"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=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5579,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/5579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}