{"id":8250,"date":"2015-05-25T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2018-05-30T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:05:20","slug":"rosa-multiflora-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8250","title":{"rendered":"<em>Rosa multiflora<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8252\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150525_106496.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8252\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150525_106496-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Rosa multiflora&lt;\/em&gt;\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8252\" data-wp-pid=\"8252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150525_106496-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150525_106496-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150525_106496-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150525_106496-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150525_106496.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Rosa multiflora<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for my annual photo of the <em>Rosa multiflora<\/em> hybrid I have in our back garden. This is a natural hybrid, found growing in the woods near my office. The parent plant is no longer there, because about a month after I dug up a piece it was sprayed and killed. Normally that&#8217;s the right thing to do with <em>R. multiflora<\/em> but this one is special to me, because of the pink blooms that cover the plant this time of year for about a week. It&#8217;s quite lovely. It would be even better, of course, if it repeated but one cannot have everything. It&#8217;s a vigorous plant, as one would expect with a <em>multiflora<\/em> hybrid, and handsome as a large patch of green on the back fence, even when not in bloom. It takes a bit of extra care, pruning and cutting out dead wood every couple years, but it&#8217;s well worth the effort. That effort is made more difficult by the quantity (large) and quality (also large and <em>very<\/em> sharp) thorns that absolutely cover the canes. Still, worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for my annual photo of the Rosa multiflora hybrid I have in our back garden. This is a natural hybrid, found growing in the woods near my office. The parent plant is no longer there, because about a month after I dug up a piece it was sprayed and killed. Normally that&#8217;s the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8250\">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":[617,107,682,680,681,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250"}],"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=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8253,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/8253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}