{"id":8368,"date":"2015-06-14T18:19:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2015-06-16T06:37:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:37:22","slug":"hydrangea-big-smile-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8368","title":{"rendered":"Hydrangea \u2018Big Smile\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8370\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150614_107532.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8370\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150614_107532-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Hydrangea \u2018Big Smile\u2019\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8370\" data-wp-pid=\"8370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150614_107532-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150614_107532-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150614_107532-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150614_107532-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150614_107532-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150614_107532.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hydrangea \u2018Big Smile\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A year ago (exactly a year ago, as it would happen) we bought two hydrangeas for the back yard. One was a <em>Hydrangea paniculata<\/em> and the other a variety called \u2018Big Smile\u2019. They are planted in a partly shady area of the back border and seem to be doing quite well. This is one of the large, sterile flowers on \u2018Big Smile\u2019. The buds seen at the top of the image are fertile flowers that have yet to open. They are small and fairly inconspicuous. From a distance, it is quite attractive but I also like the subtle coloration and the asymmetry of the petals in this flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago (exactly a year ago, as it would happen) we bought two hydrangeas for the back yard. One was a Hydrangea paniculata and the other a variety called \u2018Big Smile\u2019. They are planted in a partly shady area of the back border and seem to be doing quite well. This is one of &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8368\">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\/8368"}],"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=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8372,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}