{"id":941,"date":"2012-05-15T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T03:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2012-05-15T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T03:06:25","slug":"kousa-dogwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Kousa Dogwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_943\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_20120515_036165.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-943\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_20120515_036165-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Kousa Dogwood\" title=\"Kousa Dogwood\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_20120515_036165-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_20120515_036165-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_20120515_036165-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_20120515_036165-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/img_20120515_036165.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kousa Dogwood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Cornus kousa<\/em> (Japanese dogwood) is in bloom and I love these trees. Personally I think they are nicer in almost every way to the native <em>C. florida<\/em> (the flowering dogwood). There aren&#8217;t as many good pink varieties, of course, but it&#8217;s a handsomer tree with interesting bark and less bothered by anthracnose. The fruit is interesting, as well, although I guess if it were dropping on my patio I would prefer the smaller fruit of the native. Kousa also blooms much later, obviously, which I suppose is a downside, since there is so much else blooming right now. This is one of a bunch growing around my office building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cornus kousa (Japanese dogwood) is in bloom and I love these trees. Personally I think they are nicer in almost every way to the native C. florida (the flowering dogwood). There aren&#8217;t as many good pink varieties, of course, but it&#8217;s a handsomer tree with interesting bark and less bothered by anthracnose. The fruit &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=941\">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\/941"}],"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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}