{"id":7051,"date":"2014-12-07T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2014-12-09T23:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T04:16:31","slug":"ilex-verticillata-winterberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7051","title":{"rendered":"<em>Ilex verticillata<\/em> (Winterberry)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7053\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141207_095029.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7053\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141207_095029-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Ilex verticillata (Winterberry)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7053\" data-wp-pid=\"7053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141207_095029-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141207_095029-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141207_095029-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141207_095029-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141207_095029.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ilex verticillata<\/em> (Winterberry)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Holly isn&#8217;t my favorite genus but there are hollies and then there are hollies. What I most people think of when you mention holly is thick, leathery leaves with spines along the sides and end. To my way of thinking, they are not ideal in a yard, especially if you like to go barefoot. <em>Ilex verticillata<\/em>, on the other hand, has leaves that do not impale your feet. They also lose their leaves in the winter and make up for it with an abundance of bright red berries. It is aptly named winterberry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly isn&#8217;t my favorite genus but there are hollies and then there are hollies. What I most people think of when you mention holly is thick, leathery leaves with spines along the sides and end. To my way of thinking, they are not ideal in a yard, especially if you like to go barefoot. Ilex &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7051\">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\/7051"}],"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=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}