{"id":5773,"date":"2014-05-11T15:39:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T20:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2014-05-17T08:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T13:23:51","slug":"lily-of-the-valley-convallaria-majalis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5773","title":{"rendered":"Lily of the Valley (<em>Convallaria majalis<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5775\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140511_083549.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5775\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140511_083549-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140511_083549-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140511_083549-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140511_083549-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140511_083549-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140511_083549.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily of the Valley (<em>Convallaria majalis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s lily of the valley time, which is certainly a pretty time of year. Buying this pretty little plant can be quite expensive, and while a little will spread and go a long way, it takes a while to get established. We were fortunate in two ways. First, we knew of a house that had been condemned and was to be torn down for a road widening project. We got permission from the owner to take whatever we wanted from her garden, before it was gone. That included a huge amount of lily of the valley. Then, when we moved to our new house a few years later, we found a reasonably large patch already established in one area of the back yard.<\/p>\n<p>One difficulty in taking pictures of lily of the valley (<em>Convallaria majalis<\/em>) is getting them from a different angle. Most of you know that getting down on the ground doesn&#8217;t bother me in the least. But I wanted to get lower still, down far enough that I could look up at the blooms of this little beauty. With a macro lens on the camera, getting down far enough to still have room to focus was the real trick, but I think I&#8217;ve accomplished it here. So, an mole&#8217;s eye view of lily of the valley flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s lily of the valley time, which is certainly a pretty time of year. Buying this pretty little plant can be quite expensive, and while a little will spread and go a long way, it takes a while to get established. We were fortunate in two ways. First, we knew of a house that had &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5773\">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\/5773"}],"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=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5778,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions\/5778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}