{"id":7061,"date":"2014-12-09T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7061"},"modified":"2014-12-10T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T03:17:14","slug":"wet-weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7061","title":{"rendered":"Wet Weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7063\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141209_095081.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7063\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141209_095081-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Wet Weeds\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7063\" data-wp-pid=\"7063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141209_095081-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141209_095081-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141209_095081-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141209_095081-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_20141209_095081.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wet Weeds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Merriam-Webster defines a weed as &#x201c;a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth.&#x201d; That sounds about right. It&#8217;s easier to define what you mean by the word &#x201c;weed&#x201d; than it is to decide what qualifies as a weed. Some plants are easy&#x2014;most of us consider dandelions to be weeds. Crabgrass and nutsedge are another pair that won&#8217;t get much argument. What about when it&#8217;s something you planted? If it gets out of hand, you might consider it a weed. We have a few things like that and this might qualify. Where we had two trees cut down we have a pretty vigorous growth of black-eyed Susans (<em>Rudbeckia<\/em>), purple vervain (<em>Verbena bonariensis<\/em>), and Virginia knotweed (a.k.a. painter&#8217;s palette, <em>Persicaria virginiana<\/em> var. <em>filiformis<\/em>). This picture is of knotweed, and we might need to start treating it as a weed. It is pretty, though, and more so with beads of water on the stems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriam-Webster defines a weed as &#x201c;a plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth.&#x201d; That sounds about right. It&#8217;s easier to define what you mean by the word &#x201c;weed&#x201d; than it is to decide what qualifies as a weed. Some plants are easy&#x2014;most of us consider dandelions to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7061\">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\/7061"}],"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=7061"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7068,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions\/7068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}